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Can you teach compassion in a healthcare system built for speed?
Nursing students learn the clinical skills fast. The human ones take longer — and there's rarely enough practice time built into the curriculum for difficult conversations, patient handovers, or breaking bad news under pressure.
That's the gap we're tackling in our next live webinar, Human-Centred Care in Nursing Education, on 20 October 2026 at 12pm ET.
We've brought together two educators who think about this problem every day:
- Brittany Haskell, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Psychiatric/Mental Health NP at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, who teaches legal, ethical and community-care practice across pre-licensure to doctoral programmes.
- Venessa Hayes, Simulation Educator at the University of North Florida, a Certified Emergency Nurse with 19 years in healthcare, who designed the Human Centered Care Badge Course for MedNexus.
What's on the agenda
The session runs as three short acts: brief presentations from each speaker, a panel discussion digging into what human-centred care actually looks like in a technology-driven healthcare environment, and open audience Q&A. If you've ever sat through a webinar that's all slides and no substance, this isn't that — it's built for educators who want practical takeaways they can use in their own simulation labs and curricula.
Expect honest conversation about where simulation and AI-powered roleplay fit alongside — not instead of — real clinical supervision, and how to give students repeatable, low-stakes practice at the conversations that are hardest to teach: diagnosis discussions, de-escalation, and compassionate communication when there's no script to follow.
Who should attend
- Nursing professors and educators
- Simulation leads and nurse educators
- Faculty and department heads in healthcare and nursing programmes
This is free, live, and open to anyone working on preparing nursing students for the realities of patient care — not just the clinical checklist.
