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Hi folks!

My day job is Project Manager - Clinical Learning at a publicly funded children’s hospital here in Canada. As part of my role, I give a presentation 3-4 times a year about evidence-based best practices in education—specifically, strategies we can use to train new healthcare providers joining our hospital. Most of my audience are nurses who will soon be paired with a student or new hire to mentor for several weeks, but I often get attendees from other professions, such as respiratory therapists and physiotherapists.

I face three challenges with this training. First, I have far too many topics to cover in just one hour. Second, I desperately want to dive into the details of educational research—the kind of depth that nurse educators or respiratory therapist educators might appreciate, with clear examples tied to real situations they’ll encounter while training others. But much of that information falls outside the scope of what my usual audience needs. And third, I only reach a handful of people each year. Maybe my ego has gotten the better of me from the positive feedback I’ve received, but I feel like more people might benefit from this content.

So here we are. I’m launching a newsletter about applying evidence-based best practices in educational psychology to healthcare training. While nursing educators (and educators in any health profession) are my primary audience, I welcome anyone who finds this material interesting.

While I know a fair bit about educational psychology from my Master of Education and from reading research in my spare time, I’m very much still a student of the field myself. I’m not a researcher or a leading expert—just someone passionate about the subject who loves applying this knowledge to real-world situations. If you follow this newsletter, you’ll be joining me on my learning journey.

Thanks for being here and listening to my musings.