Innovative Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Advanced Forensic Nursing

Forensic nursing is a specialty in nursing with unique knowledge and skills, founded on a theoretic framework identifying three pillars of knowledge--legal principles, forensic science, and forensic nursing with concepts, context, and content unique to the specialty. To care for patients with trauma backgrounds, who are or have intersected with the legal system, forensic nursing education and subsequent certification today requires educational technology. Transforming learning takes demonstrative activities, changing them into interactive dynamic opportunities that teach metacognitive activities to provide complex trauma-informed care in the aftermath of violence, to forensic nurses.