Tips for creating educational podcasts for nurses

On this blog Doctor Amelia Swift (University of Birmingham) AND Bronwyn Tarrant (University of Melbourne) speak about creating podcasts for nurses. Please follow them on social media @nurseswift @AdvinRes

Podcasts have gotten increasingly popular, which makes teaching podcasts tempting. Creating and publishing a podcast is comparatively easy, but simply because you may do it doesn’t suggest it’s best to. Here are some things to take into consideration before you start.

See in case your amazing idea will complement what already exists.

You could also be a teacher with an actual talent for helping students understand the finer points of neurotransmission, but will you find a way to compete with Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike, who’ve over 190 pathophysiological episodes under their belt and currently rank #35 on the medical podcast charts? and post latest episodes every few days (Podbay, 2023). Not only will or not it’s difficult to compete, but why would you?

Design your podcast.

Include your audience as co-designers. Involving students gives you the chance to make use of podcasts in several ways: Students can collaboratively create episodes, which requires them to learn the subject area, interview guests, and discover key points within the editing process. Several higher education institutions use podcasts as an assessment method because they’ll meet all academic levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Talk to your audience to seek out out what they already wish to hear and ask them about your ideas. Our podcastAdventures in researchrelied on multi-voice shows like “This American Life,” where people tell stories and commentary to clarify some pretty difficult concepts.

• Consider whether your podcast needs to be a finite series or proceed indefinitely.
• Post episodes repeatedly in order that viewers turn out to be accustomed to the discharge schedule.
• Complicated podcasts require more editing time, so complete several episodes before you begin publishing them.
• Think concerning the length of the episode.

Create a production team.

Your team must consist of people that will do the next:

• Keep a watch on the whole process.
• Book guest interviews.
• Interview guests.
• Have technical knowledge and skills.

If you wish complex editing, attempt to bring someone with experience on board. Each of our episodes will take over 20 hours to finish, but you may simply record the footage and publish it with minimal editing if that suits your content.

Our team features a producer who has a watch for soundscapes and comedy and shouldn’t be from our industry – this enables us to be certain that the content is comprehensible to a novice and interesting to experts. Because we’ve a transparent idea of ​​our personality, our podcast might be recognizable to our audience.

Record your material.

Podcasts could be recorded in person, but we discover it easier to make use of a distant podcast recording platform. Since editing our podcasts takes a variety of time, we explain this to interviewees. It is vital that they’re aware of how long it is going to take to publish and why.

Free program. You can ask guests to record their version of an interview on this topic, but some may not find a way to download it or prefer to not. The song recorded on their smartphone could also be ok, but they may need to send it to you.

• Riverside.fm or Squadcast.

Online subscription platforms. It means that you can record every person in a separate stream, edit the ultimate product, and create an SRT transcript to be used in published video or audio material. They can even submit your episode to the publishing site. The more you should do, the more you’ve to pay.

• Record audio as a wav file. An MP3 file is a compressed file and has lower quality.
• Be sure to show off anything which may trigger the sound, similar to computer programs, dogs, or children.

Mixing recording styles could make the finished product more interesting – consider those podcasts where you interview outdoors or over the phone. However, recording in numerous environments requires additional software and editing skills to be certain that there are not any annoying volume changes or dominant ambient sounds.

Add additions and publish.

• Create a brief episode descriptor in your podcast publishing site
• Submit to a publishing site, e.g Podbean
• Decide which podcast providers you should use (currently Apple and Spotify are the sites most visited by listeners).
• Send the podcast to suppliers.

To do that, it is advisable submit the whole episode to publishers for approval, which takes several days.

• Generate the embed code from Podbean to embed the podcast in your virtual learning environment or in our case research site.
• Add a blog

We include longer episode descriptors blog site to enable students to go looking for content that interests them.

To keep track of all this and make certain our podcast personality is well developed and doesn’t go astray, we meet and hold regular planning meetings.

Promote your podcast

• Create social media accounts.

Social media accounts are only pretty much as good as your posting habits. Consider sharing responsibility for posting repeatedly and following up on comments.

Consider following other podcasters to get suggestions and tricks and get known.

• Ask individuals who like your podcast to subscribe – no subscribers = no presence.

Rate your podcast

Think about assessing quality, accessibility, engagement, interest and development ideas. We track podbean stats to see the variety of subscribers and downloads. We also decided to perform a global research project to judge our podcast. If you might be a nursing student or educator and are desirous about participating, please contact us.

Podcast Creation Checklist:

1. Check out the competition (for instance via Podbay).

1. Create a working group where everyone seems to be committed to the long-term.

1. Include students in your production team.

1. Decide who your audience is and conduct market research.

1. Decide what your podcast is for – what effect do you expect?

1. Create a personality in your podcast – how will listeners recognize your style?

1. Learn learn how to edit – or find the funds to pay an editor and/or producer.

1. Plan your episodes.

1. Create a central file storage that the whole team can access, e.g. SharePoint or Dropbox

1. Record the fabric and download it as wav files.

1. To edit, use a program like Audacity or a web based podcast recording platform.

1. Once you’ve your final episode, create a transcript and episode descriptor.

1. Choose a podcast publishing site like Podbean and create your site.

1. Add material to your podcast (and create a transcript if possible)

1. Create “snippets” of your podcast and post them on social media to draw listeners.

1. Connect your podcast to Apple, Spotify and other sites to extend your possibilities of being found.

1. Ask for feedback and evaluate.

Once you’ve got done all this, you may sit back, chill out, listen and luxuriate in! Let us find out about your podcast so we will listen and subscribe.

You can even access Evidence-Based Nursing Podcasts.

Podbay. (2023). Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike’s medical podcast. https://podbay.fm/p/dr-matt-and-dr-mikes-medical-podcast/about

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