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Editorial BoardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Nurse Education in Practice - October 13, 2009 Category: Nursing Source Type: journals

Rwanda: A thousand hills, a thousand dreams, a thousand challenges for nurses and midwives and the Millennium Development GoalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In tackling…world health problems, the workforce goal is simple – to get the right workers with the right skills in the right places doing the right things (WHO, 2006). International health aid communities are involved actively in addressing health challenges world wide, specifically focusing on achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals in relation to health are aimed at reducing maternal and child mortality rates, improving mental health, reducing HIV/AIDS and combating communicable diseases and malaria by 2015. Inequalities between the developed world and countries of lower economic resource ...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - September 10, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Michelle Roxburgh, Julie Taylor, Mary Murebwayire Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: journals

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Source: Nurse Education in Practice - August 31, 2009 Category: Nursing Source Type: journals

Evidence-based practice: Sowing the seeds for successEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In an era of financial turmoil and increasing healthcare litigation, the need for evidence-based practice (EBP) has never been greater. ‘Calls for budget cuts’, ‘yet another patient harmed’ and ‘nursing care was very poor’ mirror headlines that all too frequently grace the covers and frames of our newspapers and news bulletins. Patients are increasingly becoming the victims of healthcare systems that appear somewhat incapable of spending budgets in an effective, efficient manner that affects optimal outcomes for all concerned. Furthermore the same healthcare systems are enabling major patient errors such as ser...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - July 14, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Joanne Cleary-Holdforth, Therese Leufer Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: journals

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Too often critical care nursing textbooks are written by health professionals who are at some remove from the practical realities of trauma care nursing and where attention is directed predominantly to the immediate management of trauma related illness at the expense of failing to focus on perceived peripheral issues such as the prevention of critical illness, the organisation of trauma care services and approaches to successful reintegration of injured patients back into their communities. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 21, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Jacinta Kelly Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

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Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 17, 2009 Category: Nursing Source Type: journals

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In 2004 the United Kingdom Government placed Day Surgery as number one on its list of priorities for the provision of health care (). In 2008 the Darzi review re-iterated the importance of day surgery for quality, evidenced based surgical interventions (). (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 16, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Anne Mottram Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

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Children’s nursing and the care of sick children is undergoing rapid change. Technological advances, increased emphasis on family-centered care, ambulatory care and community care has made caring for children more complex as increasing numbers of children live with severe and life limiting illnesses. This complexity has resulted in children’s nurses requiring an expanded amount of knowledge to enable them to practice as safe and competent practitioners. In this eighth edition of Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, Hockenberry and Wilson have revised the content of this reference textbook to reflect the rapid adva...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 31, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Maryanne Murphy, Thelma Begley Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

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Drug therapy plays a major part in the treatment of patients and it is essential that nurses are competent in undertaking clinical drug calculations to ensure the safe administration of medications in clinical practice. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the applications of clinical calculations in the general setting and in a variety of specialty areas of practice. Some particular features of this sixth edition include additional drug problems using the latest drug labels, updated methods of drug administration in a variety of specialties, and more emphasis is placed on the metric system than on the apothecary syst...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 20, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Nevin Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

Professing nursing as an emancipatory practice: A response to Betts, C.E., The critical practice of professing nursing: A contribution to the professors of nursing debate, Nurse Education in Practice (2008), doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2008.08.001Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I read with interest the latest instalment in the ongoing debate that followed from Thompson and Watson’s editorial on the role of the professor of nursing (). Betts, who originally penned an editorial in response to theirs, takes issue in his latest paper () both with Thompson and Watson and also with my reply to them (). Unsurprisingly, I find myself in broad agreement with Betts; indeed, my only real cause for disagreement is with his assertion that we disagree. I should perhaps add as a caveat that it depends on which Betts I am referring to, since his original editorial () and his later paper () are so widely diverg...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - April 7, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Gary Rolfe Tags: Issues for Debate Source Type: journals

In My Day: Using lessons from history, ritual and our elders to build professional identityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Drawing on the power of ritual, storytelling and lessons from history and our professional elders, nursing academics at the University of the Sunshine Coast organised a three-hour event on International Nurses Day. The aims were to model to students the importance of producing their own nursing stories and to celebrate and stimulate conversation about the diverse, rich, local and national history of nursing. The event included: an oration from an influential guest speaker; video footage of nurses telling their stories; an historical display of nursing artefacts; opportunities for participants to record their stori...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 31, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Margaret McAllister, Tracey John, Michelle Gray Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

In My Day: Using lessons from history, ritual and our elders to build professional identity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drawing on the power of ritual, storytelling and lessons from history and our professional elders, nursing academics at the University of the Sunshine Coast organised a three-hour event on International Nurses Day. The aims were to model to students the importance of producing their own nursing stories and to celebrate and stimulate conversation about the diverse, rich, local and national history of nursing. The event included: an oration from an influential guest speaker; video footage of nurses telling their stories; an historical display of nursing artefacts; opportunities for participants to record their stories; a...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 26, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: McAllister M, John T, Gray M Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Clinical Progression Portfolio: A resource for enhancing learning partnershipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Interactions between students and registered nurses are crucial opportunities for clinical learning. Success of this learning partnership is predicated on excellent communication, negotiation, and shared goal setting but these elements are often difficult to achieve. This paper describes the development and preliminary evaluation of the student Clinical Progression Portfolio (CPP). This pocket-size learning resource is carried by students and used as a point of reference to (1) enhance communication between students and registered nurses; (2) provide a quick reference for the development and refinement of learning...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 5, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Marie Cooke, Rachel Walker, Debra Creedy, Amanda Henderson Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The transition to blended e-learning. Changing the focus of educational delivery in children's pain management.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many health professionals within the UK experience difficulty in accessing further education due to increased workload, reduction in budgets and personal commitments. This paper discusses the redevelopment of a children's pain management (CPM) module to blended e-learning in response to changing workforce needs. The rationale for changing the pedagogy which underpinned the mode of delivery of the module was associated with a number of factors. Reduction in student numbers, difficulties with nurses being released from their practice setting and a desire from stakeholders to maintain pain management education. An on-line...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 3, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Jonas D, Burns B Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Clinical Progression Portfolio: A resource for enhancing learning partnerships.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Interactions between students and registered nurses are crucial opportunities for clinical learning. Success of this learning partnership is predicated on excellent communication, negotiation, and shared goal setting but these elements are often difficult to achieve. This paper describes the development and preliminary evaluation of the student Clinical Progression Portfolio (CPP). This pocket-size learning resource is carried by students and used as a point of reference to (1) enhance communication between students and registered nurses; (2) provide a quick reference for the development and refinement of learning obje...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 3, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Cooke M, Walker R, Creedy D, Henderson A Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

A window on our teaching practice: Enhancing individual online teaching quality though online peer observation and support. A UK case studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article provides a practical exploration of the conduct and outcomes a case study in which the process of peer observation in online learning and teaching is articulated and shown to be relevant to the enhancement of online learning and teaching in health and other educational contexts. Copious literature on the subject of peer observation and a small body about online peer observation suggests a variety of different approaches which lend themselves to the complexities of health education settings. The practical example described here was conducted in the UK. The authors, lecturers from two different departments in th...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - March 2, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Shirley Bennett, Julie Santy Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

A window on our teaching practice: Enhancing individual online teaching quality though online peer observation and support. A UK case study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article provides a practical exploration of the conduct and outcomes a case study in which the process of peer observation in online learning and teaching is articulated and shown to be relevant to the enhancement of online learning and teaching in health and other educational contexts. Copious literature on the subject of peer observation and a small body about online peer observation suggests a variety of different approaches which lend themselves to the complexities of health education settings. The practical example described here was conducted in the UK. The authors, lecturers from two different departments in th...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 28, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Bennett S, Santy J Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Vicarious learning: A review of the literature.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Experiential learning theory stresses the primacy of personal experience and the literature suggests that direct clinical experience is required in order for learning to take place. However, raw or first hand experience may not be the only mechanisms by which students engage in experiential learning. There is a growing body of literature within higher education which suggests that students are able to use another's experience to learn: vicarious learning. This literature review aims to outline vicarious learning within a nursing context. Many of the studies regarding vicarious learning are situated within Higher Educat...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 27, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Roberts D Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Teaching style in clinical nursing education: A qualitative study of Iranian nursing teachers' experiences.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study can guide nurse educators to know more about teaching styles and use them appropriately in the clinical settings. Further research into the themes of this study are recommended. PMID: 19251481 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 27, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Hossein KM, Fatemeh D, Fatemeh OS, Katri VJ, Tahereh B Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Problem-based learning and clinical practice: The nurse practitioners’ perspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: This paper reports the findings of a phenomenological study which explored the lived experience of the nurse practitioner (NP) who had been educated through a problem-based learning (PBL) approach and the meaning of that education on the NPs current clinical practice. This was accomplished through the use of in-depth interviews to gather information from 13 practicing NPs. It was found that information obtained in the PBL classroom could be directly applied to professional practice providing the NP with the skills needed for clinical decision making with a holistic viewpoint and satisfaction in clinical practice. ...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 24, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Noreen Elaine Chikotas Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The evaluation of a successful collaborative education model to expand student clinical placements.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Worldwide, universities have been encouraged to increase the number of students enrolled in nursing courses as a way to bolster the domestic supply of graduates and address workforce shortages. This places pressure on clinical agencies to accommodate greater numbers of students for clinical experience who, in Australia, may often come from different educational institutions. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a collaborative model of clinical education that would increase the capacity of a health care agency to accommodate student placements and improve workplace readiness. The project was undertaken in ...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 23, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Barnett T, Cross M, Shahwan-Akl L, Jacob E Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

2nd International Nurse Education Conference - NETNEP 2008 - Research and Innovation in International Nurse Education.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 20, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Holland K Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Problem-based learning and clinical practice: The nurse practitioners' perspective.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper reports the findings of a phenomenological study which explored the lived experience of the nurse practitioner (NP) who had been educated through a problem-based learning (PBL) approach and the meaning of that education on the NPs current clinical practice. This was accomplished through the use of in-depth interviews to gather information from 13 practicing NPs. It was found that information obtained in the PBL classroom could be directly applied to professional practice providing the NP with the skills needed for clinical decision making with a holistic viewpoint and satisfaction in clinical practice. The a...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 20, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Chikotas NE Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

The use of teaching portfolios to promote excellence and scholarship in nurse educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Achieving excellence in nurse education and demonstrating scholarship in teaching is a challenge for nurse educators who find themselves torn between maintaining high standards in nurse education and their own need for recognition and promotion in an environment that primarily favours research and publications over excellence in teaching. The use of a teaching portfolio is a way to display excellence in nurse education and to provide a public display of teaching scholarship. While not a new concept in nursing education, it has some originality in its application to practising nurse educators. However, the requirem...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - February 2, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Margarita Corry, Fiona Timmins Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

The use of teaching portfolios to promote excellence and scholarship in nurse education.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Achieving excellence in nurse education and demonstrating scholarship in teaching is a challenge for nurse educators who find themselves torn between maintaining high standards in nurse education and their own need for recognition and promotion in an environment that primarily favours research and publications over excellence in teaching. The use of a teaching portfolio is a way to display excellence in nurse education and to provide a public display of teaching scholarship. While not a new concept in nursing education, it has some originality in its application to practising nurse educators. However, the requirement f...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 31, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Corry M, Timmins F Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Using an online case conference to facilitate interprofessional learningEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes an online learning activity used to facilitate interprofessional learning in a Faculty of Health and Social Care in the UK. An online conference was used to bring students together, utilising a real life case scenario based around a family within a virtual town. Students from a variety of programmes and professional groups participated in an asynchronous discussion forum. The student evaluation of this event was, on the whole, positive and suggests further development of such an approach would address some of the challenges of interprofessional learning. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 20, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Santy, Mary Beadle, Yvonne Needham Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Evaluation study to ascertain the impact of the clinical academic coaching role for enhancing student learning experience within a clinical masters education programmeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: Supporting students to make the transition into advanced practice roles is a prominent issue within current healthcare literature. Clinical coaching enhances learning through a strong and coherent partnership between the student, their practice context and the academic journey. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 20, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Steve R. Tee, Rosalynd M. Jowett, Caroline Bechelet-Carter Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Using an online case conference to facilitate interprofessional learning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes an online learning activity used to facilitate interprofessional learning in a Faculty of Health and Social Care in the UK. An online conference was used to bring students together, utilising a real life case scenario based around a family within a virtual town. Students from a variety of programmes and professional groups participated in an asynchronous discussion forum. The student evaluation of this event was, on the whole, positive and suggests further development of such an approach would address some of the challenges of interprofessional learning. PMID: 19155192 [PubMed - as supplied by pu...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 18, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Santy J, Beadle M, Needham Y Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Evaluation study to ascertain the impact of the clinical academic coaching role for enhancing student learning experience within a clinical masters education programme.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Supporting students to make the transition into advanced practice roles is a prominent issue within current healthcare literature. Clinical coaching enhances learning through a strong and coherent partnership between the student, their practice context and the academic journey. PMID: 19153060 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 17, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Tee SR, Jowett RM, Bechelet-Carter C Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Practice development and the potential for integrating transformational practice with research A response to Editorial: Thompson, D.R., Watson, R., Quinn, T., Worrall-Carter, L., O'Connell, B. 2008. Practice development: What is it and why should we be doing it? Nurse Education in Practice 8, 221-222.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19153061 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 17, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Dewing J, Titchen A, McCormack B Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

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This book presents the findings of a programme of research carried out by the authors in England which has attempted to answer some of the salient questions relating to trust within health care. The authors claim that the aim of the book is to explore the nature of relationships between patients and health professionals and between clinicians and health service managers and if and how they may relate to each other. This is skilfully achieved through a combination of theoretical analysis and empirical research generated from the author’s own research programme and considered in light of existing research findings. (Source...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 15, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Gemma Stacey Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

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This is a readable, practically designed textbook for nursing students in the United Kingdom (UK). The Editors and 10 other contributors are clinical and educational experts in a variety of specialties, including emergency, trauma, critical and mental health care. The Editors state that they have attempted to write a textbook that helps to narrow the theory-practice gap; and it succeeds in being both practical in nature and accessible in its linguistic style. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 9, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Sue Turale Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

Podcasts and videostreaming: Useful tools to facilitate learning of pathophysiology in undergraduate nurse education?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Nurses require an understanding of pathophysiological processes to support safe practice in the clinical area. A review of the literature indicates that nursing students have traditionally found this to be a challenging element of the course. The increasing availability of newer technology in higher education such as videostreaming and podcasting provides the opportunity to utilise a variety of approaches to cater for a wider range of learning styles. In view of this, lecturers developed multimedia resources to incorporate into a pathophysiology module. An evaluation of students’ views on the use of ICT to facil...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 5, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: Aidín A. McKinney, Karen Page Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Podcasts and videostreaming: Useful tools to facilitate learning of pathophysiology in undergraduate nurse education?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nurses require an understanding of pathophysiological processes to support safe practice in the clinical area. A review of the literature indicates that nursing students have traditionally found this to be a challenging element of the course. The increasing availability of newer technology in higher education such as videostreaming and podcasting provides the opportunity to utilise a variety of approaches to cater for a wider range of learning styles. In view of this, lecturers developed multimedia resources to incorporate into a pathophysiology module. An evaluation of students' views on the use of ICT to facilitate u...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - January 3, 2009 Category: Nursing Authors: McKinney AA, Page K Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Friendship fosters learning: The importance of friendships in clinical practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: This paper reports on one of the key findings from a recent ethnographic study (Roberts, D., 2007. Friendships and the community of students: peer learning amongst a group of pre-registration student nurses. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Salford, UK) and aims to highlight the importance of friendships for student nurses in clinical practice. An interpretive ethnographic approach was taken in order to reveal the student experience during their pre registration programme. Data was collected using ethnographic interviewing (Sorrell, J.M., Redmond, G.M., 1995. Interviews in qualitative nursing research: differ...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 12, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Debbie Roberts Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Friendship fosters learning: The importance of friendships in clinical practice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper reports on one of the key findings from a recent ethnographic study (Roberts, D., 2007. Friendships and the community of students: peer learning amongst a group of pre-registration student nurses. Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Salford, UK) and aims to highlight the importance of friendships for student nurses in clinical practice. An interpretive ethnographic approach was taken in order to reveal the student experience during their pre registration programme. Data was collected using ethnographic interviewing (Sorrell, J.M., Redmond, G.M., 1995. Interviews in qualitative nursing research: differing a...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 10, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Roberts D Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Rubrics for clinical evaluation: Objectifying the subjective experience.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Rubrics have historically been used in secondary and higher education to evaluate specific assignments or tasks. There is little mention of rubrics in the nursing literature, particularly in the area of clinical evaluation. A strong case can be made for expanding the traditional use of a rubric to include its validity with clinical evaluation. Clinical evaluation remains a challenge, even for seasoned faculty. Faculty and students often interpret clinical course objectives differently. Coupled with this concern is the subjectivity of the evaluation. The use of "novice" clinical faculty, who inevitably struggle with dis...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 9, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Isaacson JJ, Stacy AS Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Maximised learning through integrated assessment: Evidenced through nursing practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: It is well accepted that assessment approaches impact student learning and yet there are a number of constraints that inhibit the ability to develop and implement more effective assessment practices. Higher workload challenges faced by academics coupled with the needs of a changing student demographic were the impetus for a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing an integrated assessment approach. The project aimed to redevelop some of the current assessment practices across a number of faculties within an Australian university with the primary goal of demonstrating a more strategic, integrated and meaningfu...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 9, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca A. Vanderheide, Jackie Walkington Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

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The nature of health-related work requires close working relationships with people, and nurses occupy a central place in relation to this work. It is therefore essential that students of nursing, regardless of discipline begin to develop the requisite skills to enable them to work effectively with people. Nursing and Working with Other People is a valuable contribution to this end. The text is directed primarily towards students beginning their Common Foundation Programme who are required to attain certain standards prior to entering branch programmes (Adult, Child, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities). Two domains from...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 9, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Louise Daly Tags: Book Reviews - E-only Source Type: journals

The clinical experiences of mature mental health nursing students in IrelandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Mental health nursing has traditionally attracted a high level of mature applicants and this trend has not altered since the introduction of the Bachelor in Science in Nursing programme. The literature suggests that for many mature students, entering into nurse education is the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition. However, in reality they face many challenges not always shared by their younger classmates. The aim of this paper is to explore the clinical experiences of mature students in the field of mental health nursing. A qualitative descriptive method was utilised to guide the research with a focus group being th...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 8, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Brian Keogh, Frances O’brien, Kathleen Neenan Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Maximised learning through integrated assessment: Evidenced through nursing practice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It is well accepted that assessment approaches impact student learning and yet there are a number of constraints that inhibit the ability to develop and implement more effective assessment practices. Higher workload challenges faced by academics coupled with the needs of a changing student demographic were the impetus for a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing an integrated assessment approach. The project aimed to redevelop some of the current assessment practices across a number of faculties within an Australian university with the primary goal of demonstrating a more strategic, integrated and meaningful lea...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 5, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Vanderheide RA, Walkington J Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Teaching the teacher program to assist nurse managers to educate nursing staff in Ecuadorian hospitals.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Continuing education for hospital staff nurses is a concern worldwide. Current research shows that continuing education among nurses can positively affect patient outcomes (O'Brien, T., Freemantle, N., Oxman, A, et al., 2002. Interactive continuing education workshops or conferences can improve professional practice and patient outcomes. Journal of Evidence Based Nursing. 26 (5)). Seeing a need for improved patient outcomes among hospitals in Ecuador, we conducted a teaching the teacher program to assist nurse managers to carry-out continuing education in their hospital system. This teaching the teacher program was est...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 4, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Palmer SP, Heaston S Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

International collaboration: A concept model to engage nursing leaders and promote global nursing education partnerships.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes a newly developed, internationally focused concept model, Engaging tomorrow's international nursing leaders (ETINL). The primary tenets of the ETINL model encourage advocacy, activism, and professional accountability in preparing nursing leadership. The article presents the foundation and application of the ETINL model in providing an on-going forum for student and faculty exploration of global nursing issues. The concept model has been applied in a collaborative partnership between a United States school of nursing and two United Kingdom schools of nursing to create a leadership development course '...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 4, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Garner BL, Metcalfe SE, Hallyburton A Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

The clinical experiences of mature mental health nursing students in Ireland.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mental health nursing has traditionally attracted a high level of mature applicants and this trend has not altered since the introduction of the Bachelor in Science in Nursing programme. The literature suggests that for many mature students, entering into nurse education is the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition. However, in reality they face many challenges not always shared by their younger classmates. The aim of this paper is to explore the clinical experiences of mature students in the field of mental health nursing. A qualitative descriptive method was utilised to guide the research with a focus group being the met...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 3, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Keogh B, O'brien F, Neenan K Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

The ongoing search for best practice in clinical teaching and learning: A model of nursing students' evolution to proficient novice registered nurses.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article describes the development of a model of nursing students as evolving registered nurses (RNs). It aims to generate critical debate about innovations in nursing teaching and learning. The model is the outcome of research conducted with undergraduate nursing students (n=111) from Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia. It identifies the positive and negative intrinsic and extrinsic factors that impact on nursing students' clinical learning development and progression from students to proficient novice RNs. This model has implications for future curriculum development, staff development, placement approach...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 3, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Edgecombe K, Bowden M Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

The student experience of NETNEP 2008: A personal reflection.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 3, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Tierney-Wigg S Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

Renewing pride in teaching: Using theory to advance nursing scholarship.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article demonstrates the scholarship of daily educational practice by describing how reflections on the teaching-learning relationship, associated role changes, and time impact the "bridges of understanding". Theoretical frameworks of learning partnerships, learner-centered teaching, and critical inquiry are brought to life when described in terms of actual course activities. This, in turn, demonstrates how teaching advances nursing scholarship. PMID: 19054716 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 1, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Sandra Carter MN Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals

District nurses’ experience of supervising nursing students in primary health care: A pre- and post-implementation questionnaire studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Nursing students go through clinical supervision in primary health care settings but district nurses’ (DNs) circumstances when supervising them are only briefly described in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate DNs experience of supervising nursing students before and after the implementation of a new supervision model. Ninety-eight (74%) DNs answered a questionnaire before and 84 (65%) after implementation of the new supervision model. The study showed that DNs in most cases felt that conditions for supervision in the workplace were adequate. But about 70% lacked training for the supervisory...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 1, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Elisabeth Bos, Anna Löfmark, Lena Törnkvist Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

Interpersonal boundaries in clinical nursing education: An exploratory Canadian qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summary: Background: Clinical nursing instructors and students spend considerable time together, and share clinical experiences that can be intense and emotionally charged. Yet despite clinical teaching being so commonplace, little is known about how clinical instructors experience relationships with their students, and how they negotiate interpersonal boundaries within these relationships.Methods: In-depth unstructured interviews were conducted with eight clinical nursing instructors in Western Canada, to explore how they defined and constructed interpersonal boundaries with their students during clinical nursing teaching...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - December 1, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Mark P. Zieber, Brad Hagen Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

District nurses' experience of supervising nursing students in primary health care: A pre- and post-implementation questionnaire study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nursing students go through clinical supervision in primary health care settings but district nurses' (DNs) circumstances when supervising them are only briefly described in the literature. The aim of this study was to investigate DNs experience of supervising nursing students before and after the implementation of a new supervision model. Ninety-eight (74%) DNs answered a questionnaire before and 84 (65%) after implementation of the new supervision model. The study showed that DNs in most cases felt that conditions for supervision in the workplace were adequate. But about 70% lacked training for the supervisory role a...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - November 28, 2008 Category: Nursing Authors: Bos E, Löfmark A, Törnkvist L Tags: Nurse Educ Pract Source Type: journals