Student Perception of Clicker Usage in Nursing Education

Nurse educators must explore innovative ways to engage students and stimulate learning. Student response system (SRS) technology is one tool educators can use to increase participation, provide immediate feedback, and encourage critical thinking. This study evaluated perceptions of first-year nursing students using SRS technology. The findings support the use of SRS technology as a positive pedagogical approach to incorporate in teaching associate degree nursing students

The Influence of Age, Employment, and Ethnicity on Associate Degree Nursing Students\u27 Perception of Instructor Caring

The aim of this study was to explore ADN students’ perceptions of instructor caring, including the relationships between age, employment, and race/ethnicity, utilizing the Nursing Students’ Perception of Instructor Caring (NSPIC) instrument. Understanding some of the unique needs and what behaviors demonstrate caring to students can help nurse educators develop and utilize more of these caring behaviors in various interactions with students. Standard multiple regression, multiple correlations, and one open-ended question were used to analyze the data. Age, employment status, and race were not statistically significant predictors of students’ perceptions of instructor caring for any of the scales. Each of the five scales had moderate to high levels of internal consistency. Inter-item correlations demonstrated most items were moderately to highly correlated within each scale. Common themes regarding behaviors that students wanted changed or improved included feedback, communication, availability, support, respect, and understanding. Implications for nurse educators and administrators include increasing the awareness of students’ perceptions of instructor caring behaviors and incorporation of quality teaching practices that reflect these behaviors. This can help build the instructor-student relationship, help students develop their caring efficacy, and potentially help students succeed in nursing school and in the profession

Perceptions and Utilization of a Multimedia Teaching Strategy to Prevent Student Nurse Attrition

Untethered Lecture Capture (ULC) is a teaching method facilitating student classroom engagement while simultaneously creating audiovisual lecture capture (LC) resources. This single-site, convergent parallel mixed-methods study qualitatively described how nursing students with attrition risk factors perceived ULC influenced learning and quantified how such students utilized LC. Study participants (N = 28) reported watching most LC resources (57.1%) and 42.9% watched entire LC videos from start to finish. Qualitative findings produced new evidence about untethered faculty proximity in the classroom and ULC techniques supporting in-class focus and post-class self-paced learning efficiencies. Findings help nurse educators prioritize instructional methods among students with attrition risk factors