Retrieval practice is an essential skill in learning. 🗞️ It involves reconstructing information that you learned in the past and bringing it into the present moment. For nursing students, this is an essential skill to bridge the academic-practice gap and allow them to apply what they learn in theory to clinical situations.

👟 An advanced technique for using stations in a sequential order as part of a case study.

Get started using stations as an embodied education practice. 🤸🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️

How embodied education can be used as an active learning tool 👁️

While getting to know the clinical paperwork and doing a walk-through of the unit are important, this article has fresh ideas to invigorate the orientation day.

A study technique developed by a world-renowned physicist who was a keen observer of how humans learned. The Feynman Technique can be used in class or taught to students as an active learning study tool.

A mock incident report can be an excellent way to expose students to failure and successfully navigate a mistake.

When implementing an active classroom, there are still times when a lecture is needed. Keeping these sections short, about 10-20 minutes, and adding Active Note Taking 📝 can engage students with the content and create an active learning nursing classroom even when using a slide deck.

The Popsicle Stick Prioritization 🍡 activity is excellent for individuals or small groups and allows students to "vote" on their highest priority. And it can be a simple add-on to any case study you already use in class, so it is minimal work to implement.

Infuse the first day of your course with an active learning syllabus review in the form of a syllabus scavenger hunt. 🔎

Using an Exam Wrapper in the time immediately following an exam is ideal for reflection and improving nursing student exam scores. 📝

Nurse educators are challenged with connecting knowledge to practice. The Fishbone Analysis is an awesome clinical judgment activity. 🐟

To teach nursing clinical judgment, we should explore the highest levels of Bloom's taxonomy in our classrooms. But what activities can we use to have students "create?" 🎨

When patients share their healthcare journey online, they provide rich opportunities for learning about the emotional, spiritual and psychosocial complications of a disease. 📝 The worksheet Using a Patient Blog gives nursing instructors and students the framework to learn from their experiences.

This online activity is versatile and can be used for classroom, clinical, simulation, orientation, or interviews. 🎉 I give you a framework to create a Virtual Escape Room using Google Forms and connect it to the nursing process.

Many of the ideas here have focused on active teaching techniques in the classroom. Clinical Decision Cards are a way to promote active learning and clinical judgment for nursing students in clinical! 🏥

Caring is a cornerstone of nursing. So how do we teach it? 💫 Using an Empathy Map brings active learning to the art of caring.

A twist on the classic 80’s TV show will have students laughing and learning. While the monetary reward is not the same, the learning rewards in One Million Dollar Pyramid are top-notch. 💵💰💵

Students often ask me for a study guide before an exam. What better way than to have them create one! 📝

Deciding when to give and hold meds is tough. This is a simple yes/no format game that gives the data and asks, “Would you give this med?” 💊💊