Vickey Keathley, clinical nurse educator, wrote "Redesigning clinical education to transition pre-licensure students from all-virtual to in-person clinical" in Teaching and Learning in Nursing with Nancy Crego, assistant professor, Mary Paden, consulting associate, Rémi M. Hueckel, associate professor, and Mariam Kayle, assistant professor.

Abstract

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, pre-licensure nursing programs swiftly adapted the curriculum to accommodate the cessation of in-person clinical and transition to all-virtual clinical education. Once in-person clinical resumed, a redesign of clinical education facilitated transition to in-person clinical and prepared students for changes to nursing practice due to the pandemic. We describe how we redesigned clinical instruction to facilitate the transition from all virtual to in-person clinical. We discuss techniques to improve student confidence, enhance therapeutic and inter-professional communication, promote mastery of skills essential for a modified clinical environment, institution of virtual post-clinical conferencing and enhancing student resiliency.

Citation

Vickey Keathley, Nancy Crego, Mary Paden, Remi Heuckel, Mariam Kayle,
Redesigning clinical education to transition pre-licensure students from all-virtual to in-person clinical, Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 2021, ISSN 1557-3087, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2021.02.004.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1557308721000123)