Patterns of communication in high-fidelity simulation.

High-fidelity simulation is commonplace in nursing education. However, critical thinking, decision making, and psychomotor skills scenarios are emphasized. Scenarios involving communication occur in interprofessional or intraprofessional settings.

Prevention of abusive head trauma: a literature review.

Abusive head trauma, formerly known as shaken baby syndrome, is a condition with physical, psychosocial, and fiscal implications presenting opportunities for nurses to intervene with prevention strategies. This integrative review of the literature explored the empirical evidence to identify prevention strategies effective in decreasing abusive head trauma. Education, medical, and nursing databases yielded 14 quality research studies providing the basis for the review.

Avatar-assisted case studies.

Engaging students in active techniques that promote learning and socialization in nursing may be achieved using Voki technology. The authors discuss a project, and its outcomes, that used avatar-assisted case studies. Instructors looking for a new teaching technology that can be integrated into case studies are encouraged to explore this venue as an active learning technology.

Potential food-drug interactions in long-term care.

Medication administration at mealtimes may result in food-drug interactions. Older adults are especially at risk of food-drug interactions leading to adverse drug effects and subtherapeutic responses. Research on potential food-drug interactions is limited and dated.

The work-role transition of expert clinician to novice academic educator.

The shortage of academic nurse educators has many baccalaureate programs recruiting master's-prepared clinical experts to fill faculty vacancies. A work-role transition occurs when entering a new community of practice. Naturalistic inquiry guided this study involving 18 nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists in their first or second year of full-time teaching in a baccalaureate program.

An academic fairy tale: a metaphor of the work-role transition from clinician to academician.

The author relates the findings of a qualitative study of the work-role transition of a clinical expert to novice nurse educator in a baccalaureate program. The information is presented in the form of a metaphor to provide a figurative way of reading research that can serve to stimulate thinking about the phenomenon while using storytelling to pique interest.