Partnerships between students, academics and clinicians in co-creating the student experience
The necessity to have partnerships to create a responsive and creative student experience is vital. Having attend this year's NETNEP conference in Banff, Canada it was obvious that we academics are interested in the issue of practice placement capacity and the experience of clinical placement for our undergraduate student nurses. We know there is a need to ensure that students have exposure to real world patient care and we know that in some areas of the globe that there is a real shortage of placement opportunities. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 11, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Michelle Roxburgh, Michelle Beattie Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Nurse Education Today - August 10, 2018 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Qualitative findings from an Australian study of inter-partner violence content within undergraduate health curriculum
Health care professionals are frequently one of the first points of contact in episodes of intimate partner violence (IPV). This paper presents qualitative data from a larger research project on IPV-related content in undergraduate curriculum for Australian health care professionals. IPV is a serious public health issue with findings from this paper supporting the proposition that key health care workers such as nurses, midwives and paramedics are ill prepared to respond to the challenges it poses. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Renee Lovi, John Hurley, Marie Hutchinson Source Type: research
Smartphones and mobile applications (apps) in clinical nursing education: A student perspective
Nurse educators are exploring how mobile technology can support students in clinical practice. However, the view of nursing students on the use of smartphones and mobile applications (apps) to enhance clinical education has not been explored. Their opinions are vital to capture if the right technology is to be designed, implemented and used. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Siobhan O'Connor, Tom Andrews Source Type: research
Experiences and outcomes of health professional students undertaking education on Indigenous health: A systematic integrative literature review
To explore the experiences and outcomes of health professional students when undertaking education on Indigenous health. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Kyly Mills, Debra K. Creedy, Roianne West Tags: Review Source Type: research
Facilitating student learning with critical reflective journaling in psychiatric mental health nursing clinical education: A qualitative study
Critical reflective journaling has been used to facilitate student learning in various disciplines; however, there is only limited data available on its application in clinical education in the area of psychiatric mental health nursing. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Boyoung Hwang, Heeseung Choi, Sungjae Kim, Sumi Kim, Heesung Ko, Jandi Kim Source Type: research
Modeling the antecedents of clinical examination performance: Task characteristics and psychological state in nursing students
Objective structured clinical examinations can be used to understand students' care skill performance and to evaluate courses. Thus, identifying antecedents to improved skill performance in these examinations is crucial for improving students' future care ability. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - August 1, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Hsiang-Chu Pai, Chi-Fang Wei, Shiah-Lian Chen, Shu-Mei Tsai, Wen-Jiuan Yen Source Type: research
A realist synthesis of effective continuing professional development (CPD): A case study of healthcare practitioners' CPD
Continuing professional development (CPD) in healthcare is fundamental for making sure frontline staff practice safely and effectively. This requires practitioners to update knowledge and skills regularly to match the changing complexity of healthcare needs. The drive towards using limited resources effectively for service improvements and the need for a flexible workforce necessitate a review of ad hoc approaches to CPD. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 24, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Kim Manley, Anne Martin, Carolyn Jackson, Toni Wright Source Type: research
Investigating Malaysian Nurses' perspectives of intercultural teaching in transnational higher education learning environments
In recent years, many ASEAN countries, including Malaysia have embraced Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes. These are bridging programmes that allow registered nurses to upgrade their diploma qualifications to a degree level. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 24, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Nirmala Devi Arunasalam, Robert Burton Source Type: research
Teaching teamwork and collaboration: A task-centered clinical design
Clinical instructors have the difficult task of teaching nursing skills, while also helping students understand that some of the most important responsibilities are not particularly technical. The challenge for clinical instructors is to teach within the guidelines of a program curriculum, which is often constructed using a patient-centered approach rather than encouraging a task-centered slant. Frequently, the expectation for a clinical experience is to assign students a patient or two to provide care during a clinical day. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 19, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Deborah Morrill Tags: Big Ideas Source Type: research
Student nurses' knowledge and skills of children's environmental health: Instrument development and psychometric analysis using item response theory
Climate change has an important impact on health, particularly in children. Therefore, the inclusion of environmental issues in the undergraduate nursing curriculum is essential. Knowledge and skills in environmental sustainability can be measured through questionnaires. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 18, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Cristina Álvarez-García, Carmen Álvarez-Nieto, Pedro L. Pancorbo-Hidalgo, Sebastián Sanz-Martos, Isabel M. López-Medina Source Type: research
Computer-based simulation: Effective tool or hindrance for undergraduate nursing students?
Undergraduate nursing programs continuously strive to improve student learning outcomes within the simulation lab experience. As a result, simulation labs are evaluating computer-based simulation programs to engage the millennial student learner. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 16, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Laureen M. Donovan, Christine A. Argenbright, Lauren K. Mullen, Janelle L. Humbert Source Type: research
Exploring mentors' interpretation of terminology and levels of competence when assessing nursing students: An integrative review
The purpose of this integrative review is to evaluate the empirical and theoretical literature on the challenges mentors face in interpreting and assessing levels of competence of student nurses in clinical practice. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 15, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Ibraheim Almalkawi, Rebecca Jester, Louise Terry Tags: Review Source Type: research
Learning from interprofessional education: A cautionary tale
Interprofessional education (IPE) is time consuming to develop and sustain and presents many logistical and practical challenges to curriculum developers. Drawing on findings from an evaluation study of an IPE pilot, this paper brings new insights into both positive implications and potentially negative consequences of delivering large scale IPE. (Source: Nurse Education Today)
Source: Nurse Education Today - July 15, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Anne-Marie Reid, Shelley A. Fielden, Janet Holt, Joan MacLean, Naomi D. Quinton Source Type: research
