Nursing Education Perspectives Highlights Advancing Clinical Education to Prepare Practice-Ready Nurses in Special Themed Edition
Nursing Education Perspectives Highlights Advancing Clinical Education to Prepare Practice-Ready Nurses in Special Themed Edition
Plus 7th Annual “Best of NEP” Awards to Be Presented at the NLN Education Summit in Orlando, Florida, September 17-19
Washington, DC – Clinical practice is undeniably a centerpiece of nursing education. The September-October issue of Nursing Education Perspectives (NEP), with its laser-focus on advancing clinical education, addresses this important aspect of nursing education for prelicensure students through advanced degree specialty practice candidates.
Guest editors Drs. Jennie De Gagne of Duke University School of Nursing and Rebecca Davis of the University of Alabama-Huntsville College of Nursing have assembled this timely edition to offer a comprehensive review of the evolving landscape of clinical nursing education. In their introductory editorial they elaborate:
“The articles gathered here illustrate how innovations in simulation, the use of clinical judgment frameworks, faculty development initiatives, and creative approaches to student placement are shaping more dynamic, inclusive, and effective clinical education for the next generation of nurses.”
Major areas of content spotlight:
- Simulation as preparation for practice, in a literature review with a novel focus on the competence of debriefer and their impact on learners, emphasizing the importance of faculty preparation in debriefing for simulation education
- Medication administration competency, examining the effect of deliberative practice on reduction of medication errors from 86 to 7 percent, following a study of prelicensure students’ participation in eight practice sessions over a four-week period
- Fostering clinical judgment and reasoning, presenting six separate articles exploring strategies to support cognitive development to promote the necessary skill set in this discipline, e.g., testing structured reflection prompts to boost clinical judgment scores among prelicensure students in one Research Brief, and an Innovation Center piece introducing a collaborative learning strategy utilizing artificial intelligence to assist graduate nursing students with diagnostic reasoning
- Preparing faculty for effective teaching, with a particular focus on implementing evidence-based strategies to support adjunct clinical faculty and health care facility-based preceptors transitioning into teaching roles, who lack formal training in education, e.g., a Research Brief report on the development and evaluation of an online orientation program to bolster instructional confidence and competence among adjunct faculty, and a study of an initiative providing structured guidance and practical tools for student engagement to nurse anesthesia preceptors found in the Innovation Center section
- Supporting and strengthening clinical experiences, through investigations of student rotations in a clinic serving refugees and new Americans; placements in maternal-child community-based clinics; eliminating barriers to graduate student clinical placements; and a faculty-led pediatric mobile care model
The editors conclude by saying, “Let this issue serve as both a mirror and a map, a reflection of where we stand and a guide for where we must go. The future of nursing depends on how we prepare the next generation to think critically, act compassionately, and lead confidently in clinical practice.”
“We proudly present this special edition of the National League for Nursing’s well-respected peer-reviewed scholarly journal, designed to support the advancement of excellence in nursing education to benefit all patients who rely on nurses for health care,” said NLN Chair Patricia Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, Dean and Strawbridge Professor at the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions at Ursuline College in Ohio.
“The dynamic realities of today’s health care environment call for innovative, evidence-based models of clinical education, designed to transpose theoretical classroom-based learning onto a strong practice-ready nursing workforce. Patient outcomes across multiple care settings, from acute response, chronic disease management, and routine health/wellness maintenance, depend increasingly on effective preparation of nurses to deliver outstanding inclusive care,” said NLN President and CEO Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN.
The September-October 2025 issue will be posted on the journal’s website at NEPonline.net, open access, in time for presentation and dialogue to be held during the 2025 NLN Education Summit, September 17-19 in Orlando, Florida.
“Best of NEP” Recognized at NLN Education Summit
The 2024 “Best of NEP” Awards will again be a highlight of the NLN Education Summit. Those interested in learning more about the process of scholarly writing may connect with Nursing Education Perspectives editors at the Summit, who will be happy to answer questions about the steps involved, from conception through writing, peer review, and publication.
Feature Articles
- First Place: Supporting Mental Health Well-Being in the Most Vulnerable Future Nurses, Catherine Stubin and Thomas Dahan, Vol. 45, No. 5
- Honorable Mentions: Remembering to Resume: A Randomized Trial Comparing Combined Interruption Management Training and Simulation-Based Education to Simulation-Based Education Alone, Peggy Hill, Desiree Díaz, Mindi Anderson, Steven Talbert, and Crystal Maraj, Vol. 45, No. 1
- Assessment of Nurse Educator Leadership: Instrument Development and Psychometric Analysis, Anne Krouse, Barbara Patterson, and Karen Morin, Vol. 45, No. 4
Research Briefs
- First Place: Trigger Warnings in Nursing Education: Psychiatric Mental Health Instructors’ Practices and Perspectives, Melissa Neathery, Vol. 45, No. 5
- Honorable Mentions: Effectiveness of Cultural Sensitivity Training on Undergraduate Students’ Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Ethnocultural Empathy, Katie Butte and Lena Hristova, Vol. 45, No. 1
- Telehealth Simulation: Effect on Nurse Learner Knowledge, Confidence, and Attitudes, Jeanne Moore, Nalini Jairath, Leigh Montejo, Sandra O’Brien, and David Want, Vol. 45, No. 2
Innovation Center
- First Place: Simulation Utilized for Mentoring and Measuring Integrative Thinking: A Model for Advanced Practice Nurse Competence Evaluation, Kim Paxton and Lisa Diamond, Vol. 45, No. 6
- Honorable Mentions: Ten Lessons Learned in the Implementation of Mobile, Community-Based Interprofessional Clinics, Jeanna Sewell, Sarah Owens Watts, Andrew Dandridge Frugé, Kathy Jo Ellison, Kristen Helms, Eva Jean Dubois, and Emily Myers, Vol. 45, No. 1
- A Mixed-Method Pilot Project: The Evaluation of Telehealth Training in a College of Nursing, William Hamilton, Colleen Walters, and Zackery Howington, Vol 45, No. 4
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About the National League for Nursing
Dedicated to excellence in nursing, the National League for Nursing is the premier organization for nurse faculty and leaders in nursing education. The NLN offers professional development, networking opportunities, testing services, nursing research grants, and public policy initiatives to its nearly 45,000 individual and 1,000 institutional members, comprising nursing education programs across the spectrum of higher education and health care organizations. Learn more at NLN.org.