Enhancing students' clinical experience: simple ideas that work.

This article provides ideas that an instructor can utilize to assist students with their educational objectives despite challenges in the clinical setting including student diversity, student anxiety and lack of instructor educational experience. The ideas are practical and include topics such as orientation day, communication, seating arrangements, self-awareness exercises, and bell ringers. The ideas can be modified by individual instructors to meet the specific needs of their students. The suggestions can then be adopted by the students to enhance their nursing careers.