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Exploring how we can improve nursing education together! Practical active learning ideas and interesting thoughts about nursing education.
🎯 Captivate our Audience with Active Learning: The Final Chapter
Thank you all for continuing to read this newsletter - even when last week's subject line was a bit ... off 🤦♀️. The mysterious "🔄 How to" was not my intention - I started to write it, got distracted, and it was sent before I got to complete it. These things happen I guess, but I appreciate if you still read it! 🤍 And that brings us to the final week of this series - Creating Captivating Presentations. If you want to catch up on previous weeks, you can read about each topic below: Week 1 -...
🎓Can Empathy Be Taught? Ways of Thinking Part 4
Nursing is as much about human connection as it is about clinical skill. But can we teach students how to be empathetic, or is that something you either have or don’t? Is empathy the “art of nursing,” or is it a skill that can be practiced? A student nurse practicing empathy with a patient These questions take us to part four of this series on ways of thinking in nursing education. So far, we have covered three types of thinking valuable for every nurse, no matter their workplace or the...
🥶 Preparing nurses who don’t freeze when plans change: Ways of Thinking Part 3
All of higher education is grappling with the implications of AI on our work as educators, but also what it means for our profession. Every nurse will face tough situations, complicated patient problems, and ethical questions that don’t have a clear answer. And students can turn to AI to brainstorm solutions to all of these. A student nurse using AI at clinical A nursing student might type into an AI tool: 🖥️ “My patient with heart failure is suddenly short of breath even though they’re on...
🎨 What does creativity mean in nursing education? Ways of Thinking Part 2
💡 Before we get into this week's series, quick question: Have you created an active learning tool that you and your students love? I'm looking for just a few more nurse educators to share their innovative teaching tools on Season 2 of the Learning Lab RN podcast. This is your chance to:💡 Share your expertise with fellow educators✨ Help others feel inspired and empowered to try new teaching techniques💎 Earn 50% of all sales from your teaching tool Submit your Idea When we hear the phrase...
✨ New Series!! The four ways of thinking that won't go out of style
Picture a bustling hospital unit in the 10 years. It is entirely possible that digital assistants support patient care and AI algorithms predict health outcomes before symptoms even appear. A nursing student in the future As nurse educators, it is difficult to predict exactly what nursing practice will look like for our graduates. Rapid advances in medicine, nursing care, and AI make the future of nursing practice uncertain. What truly matters, however, and the skill that will not go out of...
🧭 Want a quick active learning tool?
📌 A simple idea as you start to plan for clinical orientation or a review for the first exam of the term. Read this 2-minute article See you next week! Martha 👋 Connect in the Facebook community Say hi → ✨ Active Learning Products Check out the decks → 💡 Practical Teaching Ideas Read the articles → 113 Cherry Street #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205 To make sure you keep getting these emails, please add martha@breakoutRN.com to your address book or add me to your school's safe sender list. Want...
🧪 What's the Next Step in Your Tiny Experiment?
⛱️ Welcome back to the third part of this series, "The Summer of Tiny Experiments." Wait ... I missed what we were doing here with a "tiny experiment.” No problem! A tiny experiment is: an action you can take in the name of self-investigation takes into account your cognitive, emotional, and physical resources You can read the previous weeks of the series here: Week 1 - Setting up a Tiny Experiment Week 2 - Managing your Internal Resources Great, I’m caught up! What is the topic for this...
🧪 How's your tiny experiment going?
⛱️ Welcome back to the second part of "The Summer of Tiny Experiments." Wait ... I don't really get what a "tiny experiment" is? In case you missed it last week, the article was a self-invitation to try a tiny experiment in your life or work. A tiny experiment is: different from a goal in that it is not aspirational, but instead an action you can take in the name of self-investigation different from a habit in that it is time-bound, typically a few days or weeks. It could become a habit if we...
🧪 Try a "tiny experiment" with me
⛱️ I'm calling this "The Summer of Tiny Experiments." As an educator, and as I develop ideas for Breakout RN, I have always held experimentation as a core value. When I heard about the book "Tiny Experiments" by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, it was an immediate "add to cart." This article series, "The Summer of Tiny Experiments," is part reflective exercise and a sort of book review. And it is the last email series before my annual summer content break (starting June 13th.) It will be a unique...
🧪 Got a Weird Teaching Idea? Scenius Ingredient #4
We’ve come to the final article in our series on scenius. Remember, this is the collective creativity that emerges when communities support risk-taking, idea-sharing, and build momentum together. So far, we’ve explored mutual appreciation, rapid exchange of tools and techniques, and the network effect of success. You can read the previous installments below:Week 1 - Mutual Appreciation Week 2 - Rapid Exchange of Tools and Ideas Week 3 - Network Effects of Success The fourth and final...
🎉 When One Wins, We All Win: Scenius Ingredient #3
Over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the concept of scenius in the context of nursing education. Scenius is the collective creativity, intelligence, and innovation that happens when we work together, rather than alone. If you missed the first few articles, you can read them here:Week 1 - Mutual Appreciation Week 2 - Rapid Exchange of Tools and Ideas This week, we turn to the third principle of scenius: network effects of success. In researching this topic, I came across a...
Exploring how we can improve nursing education together! Practical active learning ideas and interesting thoughts about nursing education.