Graduates of nursing programs today are practicing in increasingly complex healthcare environments that require higher order thinking skills. Practice partners identified gaps in students’ ability to transfer clinical knowledge to clinical reasoning moving the NCSBN to explore additional means to measure graduates’ abilities to move contextual knowledge to clinical judgment. Providing active learning strategies in the classroom help students conceptualize nursing knowledge. Aligning classroom content in the clinical setting allow students to incorporate that nursing knowledge into practice, decreasing the education practice gap. Creating an environment that supports application of knowledge to practice is essential to bridging this gap. Incorporating a variety of opportunities for students to apply knowledge to clinical that incorporate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methods allow for comprehensive development of clinical judgment. This session will focus on identifying strategies and creating activities
Learning Objectives:
Explore a variety of learning activities for the clinical setting.
Create learning experiences in the clinical setting that support clinical reasoning.
Develop a debriefing strategy based on current debriefing models.
