Art of NursingArticles Three Principles Students Must Know to THRIVE, not just SURVIVE Nursing Education! Help your students start the year off on the right foot so they stay balanced…Keith RischerSeptember 1, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking Why Clinical Reasoning Is Foundational to Nursing Practice WHY is clinical reasoning foundational to nursing practice and how do you define it? Strengthen…Keith RischerJuly 28, 2016
ArticlesClinical Teaching Does a Traditional Nursing Care Plan Prepare Students to THINK Like a Nurse? Is a traditional written care plan the best approach to teach students to think more…Keith RischerJuly 21, 2016
ArticlesClinical Teaching How to Strengthen and Improve Student Clinical Communication Though the SBAR is taught as a framework for clinical communication, students still struggle with…Keith RischerJuly 14, 2016
Art of NursingArticles Three Questions that Educators Must Ask STUDENTS at the End of Each Semester I recently asked a group of NCLEX® review students three questions that provide a needed…Keith RischerMay 26, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking What Character Trait Must Students Possess to Improve their Ability to Critically Think? There is one character trait that must be emphasized as well as internally present in…Keith RischerMay 12, 2016
ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice How to Identify Sepsis: As Simple as Four “T’s” and 1, 2, 3! Any nurse can be a superhero and possibly save a life when a change in…Keith RischerApril 28, 2016
ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice Surviving Sepsis: What Every Nurse NEEDS to Know to Be SAFE in Practice Sepsis is a KILLER that continues to be a growing problem in health care settings…Keith RischerApril 21, 2016
ArticlesClassroom Teaching Three Words That When APPLIED Will Transform Your Content and Strengthen Student Learning! Case studies are old school, but have the power to situate clinical realities as low…Keith RischerApril 14, 2016
Art of NursingArticles Why Incivility Continues to Be a Problem in the Nursing Profession Why does incivility continue to flourish in a profession that has caring and compassion as…Keith RischerApril 7, 2016
ArticlesClinical JudgmentNurse Thinking The One Thing That Every Student Must Know Before they Graduate There is something that every new nurse (and educator!) must be taught but it is…Keith RischerMarch 31, 2016
Applied SciencesArticlesClinical Teaching Do You Know Your CBC’s and LFT’s? Students are overwhelmed and stressed by the volume of data in the medical record including…Keith RischerMarch 17, 2016