Identifying best practices for virtual nursing clinical education: A scoping review.

Background: COVID-19 forced nurse educators across the world to rapidly shift clinical experiences from face-to-face to the virtual world without identification of best practices to guide this transition.

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to identify best practices in virtual clinical experiences for undergraduate and graduate nursing students using the Community of Inquiry model as a framework.

Method: A scoping review was conducted using the Joanna Briggs Institute Scoping Review process.

Implementing a Novel Interprofessional Clinical Informatics Curriculum.

A novel interprofessional clinical informatics curriculum was developed, piloted, and implemented, using an academic medical record. Targeted learners included undergraduate, graduate, and professional students across five health science colleges. A team of educators and practitioners representing those five health science colleges was formed in 2016, to design, develop, and refine educational modules covering the essentials of clinical informatics.

Health Literacy Deficits Found Among Educated, Insured University Employees.

Evidence has consistently shown that low/limited health literacy (HL) is associated with negative health consequences and higher costs for individuals and society. To generate internal data for employee training and health/wellness programming, an HL assessment of 120 university employees was conducted using the Newest Vital Sign (NVS), a valid and reliable clinical screening tool that asks individuals to interpret a nutrition label. Sociodemographic data were collected and time to administer the NVS tool was also measured.