Jan 22, 2025
Technology is pivotal in nursing education, but persistent barriers hinder technology’s full integration in nursing programs. Drs. Will Brewer and Ann-Marie Irons discuss barriers and facilitators to the use of technology in nursing education. They surveyed 1,761 nursing faculty members in prelicensure programs about...
Jan 22, 2025
A Clinical Assistant Program at West Virginia University School of Nursing helps prepare senior-level BSN students for leadership in nursing and increases nursing students’ awareness of the rewards inherent in the nurse-educator role. In this podcast, four faculty members (Dr. Stacy Huber, Amanda Kitzmiller, Tonya...
Jan 8, 2025
Dr. Heather Hawk and Michael Coriasco describe an innovative guided learning activity they developed in which students used a chatbot to answer a clinical question. An analysis of student reflections demonstrated 4 themes: surprisingly familiar, the importance of critical thinking and external validation, a good summary...
Jan 8, 2025
A nurse educator (Miriam Abbott) and a Psychology major at Kansas State University (Wyatt Abbott) explain what prompted them to study word patterns in AI-generated text to find out whether they could recognize similar patterns in writing submissions by nursing students. Their findings suggest that the presence or...
Jan 8, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) pedagogies are increasingly common in health care education, but limited information guides their application in didactic nursing environments. Drs. Michele Gerdes, Andrew Bayne, Jennifer Wessol, Ellen Stephenson King, Kristina Henry, and Professor Allison Vance describe the current state of...