How to Bring Meaningful and Transformational Change to Your Class or Clinical in 2016!
In order to bring meaningful change it must be grounded in educational best practice. Leading…
Keith RischerJanuary 7, 2016
Strengthen Your Clinical Teaching with these 4 Simple Strategies!
Student learning in clinical is where the "rubber meets the road" in nursing education. My…
How to Strengthen Student Learning in the Clinical Setting by Asking These Questions
To strengthen student learning in the clinical setting there are a series of questions that…
Keith RischerDecember 24, 2015
Three Principles That Will Help You Start the New Year with Renewed Purpose and Passion!
Busyness will keep you from bringing needed change to academia. Use three practical principles to…
Keith RischerDecember 17, 2015
Why Student’s Must Know More than the SBAR to Effectively Communicate with Physicians
There is one skill that students must know to effectively communicate with physicians using the…
Keith RischerDecember 3, 2015
What Five Character Traits Are Required in Every Nurse? (Nightingale had a short list that remain relevant today!)
Nightingale identified specific character traits that need to be present in every professional nurse. What…
Keith RischerNovember 26, 2015
How to Help Students to ACT Like a Nurse
Though thinking like a nurse is essential to safe practice, students must desire and learn…
Keith RischerNovember 19, 2015
How to Help Students Set Correct Priorities in the Clinical Setting
Students struggle to set correct priorities in the clinical setting. This essential component of safe…
Keith RischerNovember 12, 2015
The #1 student struggle and #1 weakness in the curriculum was identified in a recent…
Keith RischerOctober 29, 2015
Six Attitudes Every Nurse Must Possess to Clinically Reason
In order to clinically reason, there are 6 attitudes that must be present BEFORE the…
Keith RischerOctober 23, 2015
New nurses struggle and experience high levels of fear and anxiety. What can be done…
Keith RischerOctober 22, 2015
What Every Student Must Understand about Pharmacology to Successfully Transition to Clinical Practice
What content of a drug manual is most important and must be UNDERSTOOD by students?…
Keith RischerOctober 15, 2015