The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Leadership Mentoring Program: Ten years of positive outcomes.

Background: Nursing leadership programs can have a positive impact on organizations and communities. Health equity in nursing requires leaders who parallel the population demographics.

Purpose: This work evaluated the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Leadership Mentoring Program (LMP) 10 years from its inception.

To precept or not to precept: Perspectives from nurse practitioners.

Background: Nurse practitioner (NP) preceptors are crucial to clinical education. Recent increases in the required direct patient care hours for NP students may worsen the current preceptor shortage. However, most studies of preceptorship only include NPs who are current preceptors and are therefore missing vital information from nonpreceptors.

An Online COVID-19 Simulation to Explore Interprofessional Collaboration and Foster Systems Leadership Competencies in Doctor of Nursing Practice Students.

Organizational and systems leadership, a competency for doctor of nursing practice students, encompasses the evaluation of care delivery systems, accountable care of populations, and resolution of ethical dilemmas. Faculty created an online simulation in which students developed a management proposal for an impending pandemic. All students agreed or strongly agreed that the simulation increased their skills in systems-based thinking, increased their knowledge of others' roles and responsibilities in addressing health care crises, and enabled them to balance ethical considerations and societal interests.

Why don't all nurse practitioners precept? A comparative study.

Background: Preceptors are integral in nurse practitioner (NP) education. A shortage of willing preceptors limits graduations from NP programs. However, little is known about why NPs decide not to precept.

Strategies to Reduce Bias and Racism in Nursing Precepted Clinical Experiences.

Background: Nursing programs are tasked with ensuring diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) learning environments for all student learners. With calls to diversify the nursing workforce, engaging nursing preceptors in program-wide DEI initiatives are crucial. Preceptors lacking commitment to DEI could result in poor patient-preceptor communication, tense learning environments, or biased evaluations of students.

An innovative technique to promote understanding of anatomy for nurse practitioner students.

Nurse practitioner (NP) students are required to have a clear understanding of the complexities of the human body. Students enter graduate studies with varying experiences and backgrounds in anatomy and physiology. Evidence suggests that human anatomy laboratories increase learning outcomes when compared with comparative anatomy modalities.

Debate as a learning tool in an online environment.

Debate offers an opportunity to increase student interaction and develop critical thinking and presentation skills. The investigators used an online debate during a first-semester Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) course. The purpose of this evaluation was to 1) evaluate the feasibility of conducting a live-streamed debate and 2) assess students' perceived gained skills.

Integration of Service Learning Into a Doctoral-Level Qualitative Research Methodology Course.

This article provides an overview of the integration of a pilot service learning (SL) project in a doctoral-level qualitative research course. Faculty partnered with a nonprofit organization that prepares former foster youth for the challenges of adulthood. The project objectives were to (1) increase students' knowledge/skills in qualitative methods, research ethics, and cultural/social issues and (2) promote community collaboration.