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…
How to Close the Education-Practice Gap in Nursing Education
The gap between how nursing is taught and real-world practice persists today. There is one…
Keith RischerApril 9, 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 Barriers Continue to Persist that Prevent Transformation of Nursing Education?
Why does nursing education struggle to realize radical transformation? What barriers persist that need to…
Keith RischerMarch 28, 2017
Why Educators Must Emphasize Preparing Students for Practice, NOT the NCLEX®
One new nurse shares her current struggles transitioning to practice and shares insights on what…
Keith RischerMarch 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
Ten Questions that will Help Students CARE More Like a Nurse
As a clinical adjunct educator, my students were entirely focused on addressing and meeting the…
Keith RischerFebruary 8, 2017
Two Questions that Students Must Be Asked Each Clinical to THINK More Like a Nurse
In order to develop the ability of your students to clinically reason there are two…
Keith RischerJanuary 26, 2017
Do Nurses (and students) Still Value Bedside Patient Care?
I see fewer older and experienced nurses at the bedside. Where and why have they…
Keith RischerDecember 15, 2016
What Omaha Beach has in Common with Clinical Practice
Preparing soldiers and nurses for the rigors of the real-world share some surprising similarities. Does…
Keith RischerDecember 11, 2016