The art of preceptorship. A qualitative study
In the clinical nursing practice preceptorship is a widespread method to improve patient care by assisting nurses in developing the right clinical skills. However, little is known about how preceptorship should be practiced to achieve a positive learning outcome. The aim of the study was to investigate how preceptorship can be used in clinical practice to create learning and facilitate competence development. A qualitative study guided by a hermeneutic phenomenological approach and inspired by ethnographic fieldwork included 28 participant observations and 58 interviews. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Karina Nielsen, Jeanette Finderup, Lotte Brahe, Randi Elgaard, Anne Marie Elsborg, Vibeke Engell-Soerensen, Laila Holm, Hanne Juul, Irene Sommer Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
Reinstating district nursing: A UK perspective
As policy directives gather pace for service provision to be delivered in primary care, district nursing has not been recognised as a valuable asset to facilitate this agenda. Investment in district nursing and specialist district nursing education has fallen. This is concurrent with an ageing district nursing workforce, a lack of recruitment and growing caseloads, as district nursing adapts to meet the challenges of the complexities of contemporary healthcare in the community. The district nurse role is complex and multifaceted and includes working collaboratively and creatively to coordinate care. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 20, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hannah Morris Tags: Issues for Debate Source Type: research
The impact of simulation sequencing on perceived clinical decision making
An emerging nursing education trend is to utilize simulated learning experiences as a means to optimize competency and decisionmaking skills. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in students' perception of clinical decision making and clinical decision making-related self-confidence and anxiety based on the sequence (order) in which they participated in a block of simulated versus hospital-based learning experiences.A quasi-experimental crossover design was used. Between and within group differences were found relative to self-confidence with the decisionmaking process. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 20, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Aimee Woda, Jamie Hansen, Paquette Mary, Robert Topp Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes and preparedness toward caring for dying persons – A longitudinal study
Nursing education needs to prepare students for care of dying patients. The aim of this study was to describe the development of nursing students' attitudes toward caring for dying patients and their perceived preparedness to perform end-of-life care. A longitudinal study was performed with 117 nursing students at six universities in Sweden. The students completed the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) questionnaire at the beginning of first and second year, and at the end of third year of education. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Ingela Henoch, Christina Melin-Johansson, Ingrid Bergh, Susann Strang, Kristina Ek, Kina Hammarlund, Carina Lundh Hagelin, Lars Westin, Jane Österlind, Maria Browall Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Teaching psychology to nursing students-a discussion of the potential contribution of psychology towards building resilience to lapses in compassionate caring
Psychology is a required element in nursing education in many countries. It is particularly aimed at teaching nursing students to get a better understanding of patients, colleagues, health care organizations and themselves, and moreover to apply what they learn about psychology to optimise their care. A meaningful integration of psychology within nursing education requires an emphasis on its application in understanding aspects of care and skills development. However, its ultimate value is demonstrated when addressing problem areas in nursing and health care. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jan M.A. de Vries, Fiona Timmins Tags: Issues for Debate Source Type: research
Simulation in mental health nurse education: The development, implementation and evaluation of an educational innovation
This article examines the development, implementation and evaluation of a simulated learning experience for final year undergraduate BSc mental health nursing students in the UK. Scenarios involving managing care in an acute in patient ward and community older persons' team were designed to enable students to develop their complex decision making skills. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Anne Felton, Nicola Wright Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Undergraduate nursing students ’ attitudes and preparedness toward caring for dying persons – A longitudinal study
Nursing education needs to prepare students for care of dying patients. The aim of this study was to describe the development of nursing students' attitudes toward caring for dying patients and their perceived preparedness to perform end-of-life care. A longitudinal study was performed with 117 nursing students at six universities in Sweden. The students completed the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) questionnaire at the beginning of first and second year, and at the end of third year of education. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Ingela Henoch, Christina Melin-Johansson, Ingrid Bergh, Susann Strang, Kristina Ek, Kina Hammarlund, Carina Lundh Hagelin, Lars Westin, Jane Österlind, Maria Browall Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Making power visible: Doing theatre-based status work with nursing students
As part of a senior leadership class in an undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program in the northeastern United States, we conducted an experiential, theater-based workshop designed to increase student awareness of the micro-dynamics of power and the enactment of status in their day-to-day lives. These exercises allowed student participants to embody status and power and understand it in ways that they did not after simply completing assigned readings. At the conclusion of the workshop the participants were asked to reflect on their status habits and the consequences of these habits in a single hand-written page. (Source...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 14, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Steven S. Taylor, Rosemary A. Taylor Tags: Issues for Debate Source Type: research
Emotional displays:-Nurse educators engaging and reflecting on their own emotional displays in preparing nursing students for the emotional complexities of nursing practice
In everyday practice nurses including student nurses, face many situations which can trigger a range of their own emotions, but they also deal with a variety of emotions in patients, patients' relatives and colleagues. There is a need for nurses and those involved in nurse education to understand how emotions impact on professional practice. Yet, while nursing practice involves working often in emotional circumstances, there has been little attention by educational institutions and employers on developing the ability of nurses to understand and manage the emotional demands inherent in their role. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 9, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Laurence Leonard Tags: Issues for Debate Source Type: research
The experiences of supporting learning in pairs of nursing students in clinical practice
The purpose of this study is to describe how supervisors experience supporting nursing students' learning in pairs on a Developing and Learning Care Unit in Sweden. The present study has been carried out with a Reflective Lifeworld Research (RLR) approach founded on phenomenology. A total of 25 lifeworld interviews were conducted with supervisors who had supervised pairs of students. The findings reveal how supervisors support students' learning in pairs through a reflective approach creating learning space in the encounter with patients, students and supervisors. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - June 9, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hanna Holst, Lise-Lotte Ozolins, David Brunt, Ulrica H örberg Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
Mentors' and mentees' intellectual-partnership through the lens of the Transformative Learning Theory
In this paper we report reflections about the scholarly mentoring experiences of undergraduate nursing students (mentees) and faculty members (mentors) involved in an intellectual partnership at a Canadian university. The paper specifically recounts the impacts of the transformative process experienced by 18 mentees and three mentors, based on their in-depth written critical reflections. In this collaborative initiative, the constructivist framework of Shor and Freire, and Mezirow's Transformative Learning Theory, served as foundations for all interactions between mentees and mentors, and guided the analysis and interpreta...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 31, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Margareth Santos Zanchetta, Annette Bailey, Olesya Kolisnyk, Lorena Baku, Jasna Schwind, Eunice Osino, Kateryna Aksenchuk-Metersky, Niyat Mehari, Oluwafunmbi Babalola, Joneet Christopher, Aafreen Hassan, Newton Leong, Mohamed Mohamed, Patrice Nemhbard-Wed Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
Mentors' and mentees ’ intellectual-partnership through the lens of the transformative learning theory
In this paper we report reflections about the scholarly mentoring experiences of undergraduate nursing students (mentees) and faculty members (mentors) involved in an intellectual partnership at a Canadian university. The paper specifically recounts the impacts of the transformative process experienced by 18 mentees and three mentors, based on their in-depth written critical reflections. In this collaborative initiative, the constructivist framework of Shor and Freire, and Mezirow's Transformative Learning Theory, served as foundations for all interactions between mentees and mentors, and guided the analysis and interpreta...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 31, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Margareth Santos Zanchetta, Annette Bailey, Olesya Kolisnyk, Lorena Baku, Jasna Schwind, Eunice Osino, Kateryna Aksenchuk-Metersky, Niyat Mehari, Oluwafunmbi Babalola, Joneet Christopher, Aafreen Hassan, Newton Leong, Mohamed Mohamed, Patrice Nemhbard-Wed Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
Preparation for workplace adversity: Student narratives as a stimulus for learning
Nursing students are not always well prepared for the kind of adverse events they may experience in the workplace and yet it seems apparent that future students could benefit from learning about such experiences so that they can be avoided, or their impact minimised. This research aimed to identify nursing students' experiences of adversity, collaborate with the students to discern important lessons for future students in their experiences, and make recommendations for other educators on how to use these stories as lessons. (Source: Nurse Education in Practice)
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 24, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Hanson, Margaret McAllister Tags: Clinical education Source Type: research
Evaluation of an online master ’s programme in Somaliland. A phenomenographic study on the experience of professional and personal development among midwifery faculty
To record the variation of perceptions of midwifery faculty in terms of the possibilities and challenges related to the completion of their first online master's level programme in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Somaliland. The informants included in this phenomenongraphical focus group study were those well-educated professional women and men who completed the master's program. The informant perceived that this first online master's level programme provided tools for independent use of the Internet and independent searching for evidence-based information, enhanced professional development, was challenge-driv...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 23, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Kerstin Erlandsson, Fatumo Osman, Mathias Hatakka, Jama Ali Egal, Ulrika Byrskog, Christina Pedersen, Marie Klingberg-Allvin Tags: Midwifery Education in Practice Source Type: research
‘Asking the hard questions’: Improving midwifery students’ confidence with domestic violence screening in pregnancy
Domestic violence is a global public health issue. Midwives are ideally placed to screen for, and respond to, disclosure of domestic violence. Qualified midwives and midwifery students report a lack of preparedness and low levels of confidence in working with women who disclose domestic violence. This paper reports the findings from an education intervention designed to increase midwifery students' confidence in working with pregnant women who disclose domestic violence. An authentic practice video and associated interactive workshop was developed to bring the ‘woman’ into the classroom and to provide role-modelling of...
Source: Nurse Education in Practice - May 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Rachel Smith, Raechel Wight, Caroline S.E. Homer Tags: Midwifery Education in Practice Source Type: research
