Carroll County Community College is a two-year community college serving the residents of Carroll County, Maryland, United States..
Background: Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly changing academia and healthcare, particularly in nursing education through their ability to assist in creating clinical simulation scenarios. The key to effectively using these tools lies in prompt engineering, the careful crafting of inputs to guide AI outputs. Aim: An initiative by nurse educators explored how prompt engineering, aligned with established simulation standards, could streamline scenario design. Findings: The findings revealed variations in output quality and focus among different AI platforms (ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude), highlighting the need for careful selection and human oversight to ensure accuracy and relevance in AI-generated simulation content. Conclusions: This iterative process of prompt refinement holds significant promise for creating more engaging and effective learning experiences, but AI serves as a tool that augments, not replaces, the expertise of nursing simulationists. (c) 2025 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
This chapter is a case study of Carroll Community College, a small rural community college, and its plan to develop a viable travel program by using a hybrid model. This model includes three distinct cohorts: study abroad students (students who travel and take an associated credit course), lifelong learning students (travelers who take a continuing education course to prepare for the travel experience), and educational tourists (travelers who do not take an associated course). By allowing not only study abroad students but also lifelong learners (often called continuing education students) to participate in an international travel program, Carroll's mission is addressed. This chapter is a case study of how and why Carroll implemented the hybrid model as an example for other small community colleges that might wish to achieve similar results.
This chapter is a case study of Carroll Community College, a small rural community college, and its plan to develop a viable travel program by using a hybrid model. This model includes three distinct cohorts: study abroad students (students who travel and take an associated credit course), lifelong learning students (travelers who take a continuing education course to prepare for the travel experience), and educational tourists (travelers who do not take an associated course). By allowing not only study abroad students but also lifelong learners (often called continuing education students) to participate in an international travel program, Carroll's mission is addressed. This chapter is a case study of how and why Carroll implemented the hybrid model as an example for other small community colleges that might wish to achieve similar results.
To reduce medication administration errors by student nurses, this initiative focused on the education of clinical faculty in key areas of the medication process. Faculty development sessions addressed clinical supervision, Quality and Safety Education in Nursing, the rights of medication administration, and the impact of interruptions during the medication administration process. Outcomes indicate an increase in near-miss medication errors, indicating a need for further monitoring and faculty development.
