ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice What Physical Assessment Skills Does a Student NEED to Know to Be Prepared for Practice? Even though only 30 physical assessment techniques are consistently utilized by a practicing nurse, students…Keith RischerJune 29, 2017
ArticlesPreparing for Practice What Nurse Educators Can Do to Improve Practice Readiness of Students In order to address the lack of graduate nurses who are "practice ready", a recent…Keith RischerJune 1, 2017
ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice A Crisis in Competency. Why Nurse Graduates are NOT Prepared for Practice Did you know that only 1/4 new grads are "practice ready" according to a recent…Keith RischerMay 17, 2017
ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice What Students Must Know to Safely Care for Multiple Patients in Practice Students need to be guided to quickly and concisely collect relevant data to get the…Keith RischerApril 16, 2017
ArticlesPreparing for Practice How to Close the Education-Practice Gap in Nursing Education The gap between how nursing is taught and real-world practice persists today. There is one…Keith RischerApril 9, 2017
ArticlesPreparing for Practice Why Educators Must Emphasize Preparing Students for Practice, NOT the NCLEX® One new nurse shares her current struggles transitioning to practice and shares insights on what…Keith RischerMarch 7, 2017
ArticlesPreparing for Practice Why the statement “NCLEX® Success” Needs to Be Replaced with “Preparing for Practice” in Nursing Education Preparing soldiers and nurses for the rigors of the real-world share some surprising similarities. Does…Keith RischerDecember 8, 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
Applied SciencesArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice “CO=SVxHR” Why Every Student Must Be Able to Understand and APPLY This Formula to Practice In order to recognize a change in status and prevent a possible patient death, this…Keith RischerFebruary 11, 2016
ArticlesPreparing for Practice Why Students Struggle to Transition to Real-World Clinical Practice New nurses struggle and experience high levels of fear and anxiety. What can be done…Keith RischerOctober 22, 2015
ArticlesClinical TeachingPreparing for Practice What Nurse Educators Can do TODAY to Better Prepare Students for Real-World Clinical Practice TOMORROW Nursing is a practice based profession and everything taught must have relevant application to real…Keith RischerOctober 1, 2015