WebinarHealth

Fortifying your foundation: Brain-based principles impacting simulation learning

Recorded November 6, 2024 | 1 Hour
Online
Nursing student wearing VR goggles using vSim
The call for evidence-based teaching charges nurse educators to analyze brain-based learning and teaching methods grounded in neuroscientific principles. Simulation offers premier opportunities to integrate best practices in teaching while implementing brain-based principles. This session presents the basic tenets of brain-based learning and its intersections with simulation, creating a solid foundation for further exploration in future webinars.

Listening to this webinar will allow you to:

  1. Describe current neuroscientific principles that inform learning in nursing education
  2. Discuss the infusion of brain-based learning strategies in nursing education, nursing practice, and simulation
  3. Analyze the value of simulation, grounded in brain science, in ensuring learning professionalism, clinical judgment, and in the provision of safe nursing care.

This webinar is part of our "Renovating your simulation program: Tools to help" series, which will offer invaluable insights throughout 2025. Upcoming topics include:

  • Building connections: Generational learning and simulation
  • Your simulation toolbox: Innovations in simulation
  • Tools of the trade: Lessons Learned in Building and renovating Simulation Programs

About the speakers

Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN
Judith W. Herrman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, is a nurse, educator, and researcher dedicated to enhancing nursing student learning, faculty effectiveness, and positive client outcomes. As a retired Full Professor from the School of Nursing, University of Delaware, Judy is widely published and works as a Senior Clinical Content Specialist-Nursing for Wolters Kluwer. Judy speaks nationally and internationally about learning across the lifespan, nursing education, the teen brain, adolescent sexual decision-making, and intimate partner violence. Research interests include teen sexual decision-making, brain learning, intimate partner violence, and clinical judgment. Judy is active in product development for Wolters Kluwer and consults with nursing schools about enhancing clinical judgment, creative teaching strategies, accreditation, NCLEX® and Next Generation success, testing, curriculum design, team building, brain science and learning, generational learning, and other topics revolving around enhancing nursing education and student learning. She is preparing the 4th Edition of Creative Teaching Strategies for the Nurse Educator slated for 2025.
Christine Thomas, PhD, RN, CHSE-A
Christine Thomas, PhD, RN, CHSE-A
Director of Simulation and Experiential Learning, George Washington University School of Nursing
Dr. Thomas is the Director of Simulation and Experiential Learning at the George Washington University School of Nursing. She began using simulation teaching/learning methods in 2008. She was chosen as a NLN Leadership Development for Simulation Educators member in the 2014 cohort. Dr. Thomas earned her Healthcare Simulation Educators-Advanced certification in 2020. In her role as Director of Simulation, Dr. Thomas leads the simulation team in CAS simulation revision to align with curriculum, simulation case design, pedagogical innovation, teaching effectiveness, and measures of instructional performance. She conducts faculty development workshops on the topic of simulation best practices at George Washington University School of Nursing and Nationally for NLN/Laerdal Medical. Her research interests include how simulation impacts student outcomes and use of virtual reality in simulation.

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