The 2-Minute Drills: Incorporating Simulation into a Large Lecture Format

Nurse educators are faced with the challenge of providing quality nursing education. Current nursing curricula separate didactic and clinical learning, which can fragment learning. Increases in faculty workload and classroom size and decreases in clinical placement sites have increased the need for innovative teaching strategies to assist in bridging the gap between didactic and clinical learning. Time constraints make it difficult to provide traditional simulation-based learning (SBL) for large groups of students. This article describes the theoretical congruence, development, and implementation of the 2-minute drills, a teaching strategy that integrates lecture and SBL in a large classroom format.