Elevating competency-based education in baccalaureate nursing: A simulation integration project.

Simulation offers a mechanism for scaffolded learning in a safe environment and affords opportunities for students to integrate nursing knowledge, skills, and behaviors into patient care activities. Faculty applied a structured change model and utilized simulation theory and the AACN Essentials framework for competency-based education to integrate simulation across the pre-licensure curriculum at a large school of nursing. A series of clinical learning activities were implemented including one revised scenario, a computer-based simulation adapted from an existing manikin-based activity, and a multi-patient simulation developed by modifying three textbook publisher simulation resources.

Effect of Storytelling and Empathy Training to Support Affective Learning in Undergraduate Nursing Students.

Background: Empathy is a desired characteristic in nurses, but its development is often overlooked in nursing simulation.

Purpose: This study evaluated the effect of a storytelling and empathy training intervention to enhance empathy development in simulation-based learning.

Methods: A quasi-experimental control group design was used to evaluate differences in self-perceived and observed empathy in undergraduate nursing students (N = 71).

First Year Outcomes: Program Evaluation of a Statewide Nurse Residency Program.

In New Jersey, a statewide nurse residency program was implemented using an apprenticeship model. The pandemic created disruption to registered nurse residency programs. This included rapid restructuring of program delivery to online methods and a need to adapt curricula to reflect changing practice and guidelines.

Virtual Clinical Experiences in Nursing Education: Applying a Technology-Enhanced Storyboard Technique to Facilitate Contextual Learning in Remote Environments.

Many schools of nursing were not prepared to transition to remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtual and computer-based simulation can offer a substitution for in-person clinical learning. This article describes the use of storyboards, created by faculty, to provide context during remote clinical experiences.