Adapting Simulation Education During a Pandemic.

Nursing education faced unprecedented challenges in maintaining quality clinical and simulation instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies to maintain clinical engagement and meet course objectives included using virtual simulation and safely reopening simulation laboratories as soon as it was possible. When using virtual experiences for replacement of clinical or simulation, it is critical that standards of best practice are implemented. Safely reopening laboratories required plans for social distancing, health screening, personal protective equipment, disinfecting, and educating users on the new protocols. Combining these strategies resulted in delivering quality instruction without interruption during the pandemic.

A National Perspective on New Nurse Graduate Transition to Practice: Secondary Analysis of the National Student Nurses' Association 2021 New Graduate Survey

While role modeling is a teaching-learning experience to show the novice the skills and behaviors of the professional nurse, orientation to the new workplace generally includes a period of preceptorship as new graduates transition. There are currently two accrediting organizations: the ANCC Practice Transition Accreditation Program® and the CCNE Entry-to-Practice Nurse Residency Program for post-baccalaureate nurse residency programs (ANCC, 2020;CCNE, 2021). Magnet® organizations are required to demonstrate their new graduate transition programs with six elements, including program leadership, organizational enculturation, development and design, practice-based learning, nursing professional development support, and quality outcomes. Mentorship is a longer term relationship, a component of practice-based learning that is integrated into the nurse residency program to facilitate continuing professional development (ANCC, 2020). Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, there have been major disruptions in the implementation of nurse residency programs.