Nursing Education

Nursing Competency Kit—Getting Started With the New AACN Essentials

Nursing education is in a state of transformation. As the spotlight shifts toward competency standards, reimagining clinical learning experiences, and better preparing graduates for practice, new teaching tools and strategies are required.

 

As you adapt to meet the new AACN Essentials and focus on skill competencies, read, watch and download these resources to see how the proven combination of video + feedback empowers confident skills they’ll need as nurses.

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Tools to Teach Therapeutic Communication

See how one nursing instructor is using the Comfort Communications App and GoReact to ensure his students master therapeutic communication

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Creating Alignment: Your Curriculum and the AACN Essentials

A blog post to help you identify and align the competencies in your curriculum through curriculum mapping

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Communication Competency: The Nurse Educator’s Guide to Teaching & Assessing

A playbook for preparing practice-ready nurses to be competent and confident communicators

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Tips for Teaching & Evaluating Communication in a Virtual Environment

Find out the key ingredients for making instruction and assessment successful without being in person

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Three Key Learning Objectives To Teach the Concept of Communication

A short video clip outlining the three areas of communication competency that should be assessed

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Teaching Communication Skills Comes Down to 3 Things

A short video clip explaining the three things we are asking students to do when learning communication skills

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Tackling Curriculum Transformation: Getting Your Team in the Game

A blog post guiding you through the process of engaging faculty when incorporating the new AACN Essentials into your curriculum

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Assessing & Evaluating Communication Competency in Nursing

A webinar on setting learning objectives and effectively validating communication competency in nursing students

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3 Steps to Adapt Your Nursing Program to Meet AACN Essentials

A blog post guiding you through the shift to more competency-based learning to support the integration of AACN Essentials and prepare tomorrow’s nurses for the complex healthcare environment

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Using the Curriculum Map Template for AACN Essentials Success

A short video clip about the importance of getting faculty engaged in curriculum mapping in a meaningful and purposeful way

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Bringing Faculty Together to Kickstart Curriculum Mapping

A short video clip about the importance of getting faculty engaged in curriculum mapping in a meaningful and purposeful way

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Cultivate Faculty Commitment to Competency-Based Education

A short video clip with tips to help faculty adapt and embrace a new model for education

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Assess Learning for the New AACN Essentials

A short video clip showcasing three different types of assessment and demonstrating how to evaluate your curriculum to discover what Essentials and competencies may already exist

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Aligning the AACN Essentials With Existing Outcomes

A short video clip demonstrating how to evaluate your curriculum to discover what Essentials and competencies may already exist

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Update Your Curriculum to Support Competency-Based Education & the New AACN Essentials

A webinar featuring Ann Van Eerden and Margaret (Peg) Rauschenberger from Alverno College

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How to Improve New Nurses’ Teamwork & Communication Skills With Video Assessment

A blog post with tips for using video assessment to teach nursing teamwork and communication skills

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Clinical Judgment Toolkit

A toolkit for teaching and evaluating clinical judgment with video assessment

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3 Easy Steps: Evaluate Clinical Judgment With GoReact

A quick start guide for using video + feedback to evaluate clinical judgment

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Sample Clinical Judgment Case Study Assignment

A short video clip that provides an example of how to use GoReact for a clinical judgment case study assignment

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Nursing Education Clinical Judgment Assignment Examples

A short video clip that provides examples of how one program is using assignments in GoReact to improve clinical judgment

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Remapping Course Strategies to Align With AACN Essentials

A short video clip focused on implementation of the AACN Essentials into existing course strategies

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3 Easy Steps: Practice Therapeutic Communication With GoReact

A quick start guide for using video + feedback to help nursing students practice communicating with patients

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Helping Students Practice Therapeutic Communication

A short video clip focused on how GoReact helps nursing students practice communication skills

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Jump-start AACN Essentials With GoReact

A guide to teaching core nursing competencies with video assessment

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Increase New Nurses’ Clinical Judgment

A guide to using video assessment for anytime, anywhere skill development

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3 Must-Haves for Recording Nursing Assessments With Video

A blog post focused on helping nurse educators evaluate video assessment software

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Integrating Clinical Judgment Across Your Pre-Licensure Nursing Curriculum

A webinar featuring three professors from the University of Kansas School of Nursing

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Increase New Nurses’ Clinical Judgment: A Free Guide for Nurse Educators

A blog post introducing a resource to help you prepare nursing students for day one of clinical practice

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3 Barriers to Effective Communication in Nursing (And How to Overcome Them)

A blog post outlining common communication barriers that nursing students must learn to overcome