Nursing Students' Home Care Learning Delivered in an Innovative 360-Degree Immersion Experience.

Background: Health care is delivered to patients in the community, frequently in their own homes. New graduates need to be prepared for this unique nursing role to care for patients in the home health setting.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess student satisfaction with an innovative pedagogy to teach home health nursing using an immersion experience.

Escape Room Teaching Pedagogy in the Didactic Learning Environment for Nursing.

Background: Nursing students are diverse in their levels of experience, preferred teaching styles, and levels of engagement. This poses a challenge for nurse educators to deliver meaningful classroom activities.

Problem: Learning activities should promote analysis of data in the classroom that translates into the clinical practice arena.

Adjunct Nurse Faculty Demographics and Intent to Stay Teaching.

Adjunct nurse educators have become a primary facilitator of students' clinical learning in nursing education. However, studies are lacking as to variables that correlate with their intent to stay teaching. This study examined demographic variables that had an impact on adjunct clinical educators' decisions about whether to leave a teaching position in an associate degree nursing program.

Promotion of Nursing Student Civility in Nursing Education: A Concept Analysis.

Purpose: Substantive research into the development of civility within nursing education is long overdue. Behaviors learned by nursing students while in the school of nursing transfer to the work environment and culture of nursing. This paper reveals a concept analysis of civility within nursing education using Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis method.

Innovative point assignment for clinical attendance in an associate degree program.

Students gain experience and meet learning outcomes through clinical experiences in health care settings. However, increased student absences threatened the completion of these outcomes within the associate degree in nursing program. In response to increased student absences, and faculty maintenance of fair expectations of all students, a pilot project was developed to initiate an innovative clinical point assignment system.

Nursing student clinical shift completion as a predictor of NCLEX failure.

As competition for clinical sites increases, hospitals and nursing schools report the use of nontraditional student placements such as one 12-hour clinical shift; that was an option offered by the author's school. The author discusses implementation of 12-hour shifts and compared NCLEX fail rates of students on one 12-hour shift with students who had 2 weekly 6-hour shifts.