The use of action competence during virtual simulation sessions provides a means for knowledge transfer, accountability of actions on the part of the students, self-awareness, and reflection. Through this process, students gain critical problem-solving skills that, through sustainability, can be applied to varying future patient scenarios. Action competence contains concrete components applicable to sustainability of knowledge gained by nursing students during virtual simulation.

To improve pass rates on the NCLEX-RN, many nursing programs have implemented progression policies that require a minimal passing score on a commercial standardized exit examination. In this article, the authors provide an overview of the controversy surrounding the use of these examinations in nursing education, including ethical, legal, cultural, socioeconomic, and technological considerations, as well as discuss their program's exit examination policy, pass rates, and recommendations for the use of exit examinations.

Due to a nursing faculty shortage, many are employing strategies to recruit and retain nursing faculty. Work environments that are accommodating to the diversities of the targeted workforce increase work performance, comfortability, and job satisfaction. More people are extroverted and typically nursing faculty work environments are extroverted-oriented. Designing a work environment that is not only inclusive of extroverted nursing faculty but also introverted nursing faculty is one strategy to retain faculty. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of introversion and extroversion, discuss the typical nursing faculty work environment and the challenges it presents to introverted nursing faculty, and present strategies for creating work environments in nursing education where introverts can perform at their maximum potential.