Innovations in Nursing Education
Building the Future of Nursing, Volume 3
NLN Series, Vol. 3

Published by the National League for Nursing, Innovations in Nursing Education: Building the Future of Nursing, Volume 3 promotes innovation and excellence in nursing education through fully researched and thought-provoking writing.

This third volume introduces a new organizational structure, aligning topics to five of the seven NLN Centers for Nursing Education. Not centers in the bricks and mortar sense, the centers are a way of organizing the NLN’s thinking and framing its work, a way to continue to lead in the areas that are crucial to the future of nursing and nursing education:

•NLN | Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing Education
•NLN Center for Assessment and Evaluation
•NLN Center for Excellence in the Care of Vulnerable Populations
•NLN Center for Transformational Leadership
•NLN Center for Innovation in Simulation and Technology

“I am so pleased that Dr. Caputi, as editor of this volume, chose to arrange the chapters to correspond with the work of five of the centers, work that benefits nurse educators as well as our students and the millions of patients nurses care for over the course of our professional lives.”

Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN
CEO, NLN
This title is an American Journal of Nursing 2015 Book of The Year Contest Winner.

Table of Contents
About the Editor v
About the Contributors vi
Foreword xix
Preface xx
List of Figures and Tables xxvii
Section I NLN Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for the Advancement of the S cience of Nursing Education
Chapter 1 The Caputi Model for Teaching Thinking in Nursing 3
Chapter 2 Why Clinical Reasoning Is Foundational to Nursing Practice 13
Chapter 3 So, How DID You Do That? One College’s Process for Creating and Implementing a Concept-Based Curriculum 21
Chapter 4 Clinical Experiences in RN-BSN Programs 35
Chapter 5 Integrating Mental Health Nursing in a Baccalaureate Curriculum 43
Chapter 6 Ethical Grand Rounds 53
Chapter 7 Teaching-Learning Strategies in a Concept-Based Curriculum 59
Chapter 8 Students Collaborating to Improve Learning 63
Chapter 9 Teaching Graduate Students Evidence-Based Practice 67
Chapter 10 Facilitating Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Appraisal of Evidence 73
Chapter 11 Implementing a Pediatric Camp Clinical for Pre-Licensure Education 79"
Section IICenter for Assessment and Eva luation 83
Chapter 12 Improving Nursing Students’ Academic Performance Through The Exam Analysis 85"
Section IIICenter for Excellence in the Care of Vulnerable Populations 105
Chapter 13 The Edmond J. Safra Visiting Nurse Faculty Program 107"
Section IV Center for Transformational Leadership 115
Chapter 15 Inspiring Future Faculty 117
Chapter 16 Art of Nursing 123"
Section V Center for Innova tion in Simulation and Technology 133
Chapter 17 Team-Based Learning in Online Nursing Education 135
Chapter 18 Incorporating Virtual Simulation into Undergraduate Education 139
Chapter 19 Innovative Web 2.0 Teaching Tool 149
Chapter 20 An Innovative Approach Using Clinical Simulation to Teach Quality and Safety Principles to Undergraduate Nursing Students 153
Chapter 21 Cultural Variations in End-of-Life Simulations 159

Linda Caputi, EdD, RN, CNE, ANEF, is the editor of the “Innovation Center,” a column in the National League for Nursing’s journal Nursing Education Perspectives.

She is a certified nurse educator and a fellow in the NLN’s Academy of Nursing Education. She is professor emerita, College of DuPage, and most currently taught in an online master’s in nursing education program. She has won six awards for teaching excellence from Sigma Theta Tau and is included in three different years in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. The second edition of her book Teaching Nursing: The Art and Science was selected as the winner of the 2010 Top Teaching Tools Award in the print category from the Journal of Nursing Education. She has recently completed a three-year term on the NLN’s Board of Governors.

She is also president of Linda Caputi, Inc., a nursing education consulting company, and has worked with hundreds of nursing programs over the past 20 years on topics related to revising curriculum, transforming clinical education, test-item writing, and test construction, using an evidence-based model for NCLEX® success, assisting with accreditation, and numerous other nursing education topics.