What Active Learning Strategy Best Prepares Students for Practice?
There are many ways to implement active learning in your classroom, but there is one…
Keith RischerMarch 1, 2018
What the Best Clinical Educators Have in Common
What do the best clinical educators have in common? Students identified seven essential traits in…
Clinical “Pearls” that will Prepare Nursing Students for Real-World Practice
How are you preparing students for real-world clinical practice in your nursing program? This needs…
Keith RischerOctober 12, 2017
What Every Nurse and Nurse Educator Has in Common with Spiderman
What could a nurse or nurse educator possibly have in common with Spiderman? Once this…
Keith RischerSeptember 28, 2017
What Physical Assessment Skills Does a Student NEED to Know to Be Prepared for Practice?
Even though only 30 physical assessment techniques are consistently utilized by a practicing nurse, students…
Keith RischerJune 29, 2017
What Nurses Can Learn from an ED Physician to Be Better Prepared for Practice
What can an ED physician teach nurses and nursing students? See for yourself. An ED…
Keith RischerJune 8, 2017
A Crisis in Competency. Why Nurse Graduates are NOT Prepared for Practice
Did you know that only 1/4 new grads are "practice ready" according to a recent…
Keith RischerMay 17, 2017
How to Quickly and Concisely Prepare for Patient Care
Students struggle to transition to clinical practice after the NCLEX®. There is one simple strategy…
Keith RischerApril 27, 2017
What Students Must Know to Safely Care for Multiple Patients in Practice
Students need to be guided to quickly and concisely collect relevant data to get the…
Keith RischerApril 16, 2017
What is the Mindset that Educators Must Maintain to Bring Transformational Change?
Do you recognize the value and significance of what you do? Transformational change requires not…
Keith RischerApril 7, 2017
What Successful Nursing Students Have in Common (and why it matters to nurse educators!)
Do you know the habits of highly successful nursing students? They have been identified in…
Keith RischerMarch 1, 2017
Socratic Questions Students Must Be Asked Each Clinical to Think More Like a Nurse
Though Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher lived over 2500 years ago, his unique style of…
Keith RischerFebruary 16, 2017