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The Development of the Simulation Thinking Rubric
High fidelity simulation has become a widespread and costly learning strategy in nursing education because it can fill the gap left by a shortage of clinical sites. In addition, high fidelity simulation is an active learning ...
Current perspectives on the Gestalt of nursing curricula
This research study aimed to investigate the current gestalt of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) curricula in the United States. Presently there is an emphasis in nursing education on the practice–education gap in ...
The current status of physical assessment skills in baccalaureate and associate degree nursing schools and its congruence with hospital expectations
Before this study, no definition of the status of physical assessment skills content existed in the two entry-level curricula in nursing and in the hospitals' expectations of the nurses they employed.
This study is a ...
Perceptions of Instructor Caring Behaviors, Self-Esteem, and Perceived Clinical Competence: A Model of the Attitudinal Component of Professional Nurse Autonomy in Female Baccalaureate Nursing Students
This model testing correlational study was designed to specify a model of predictors of the attitudinal component of professional nurse autonomy and to test three carative factors embedded in Watson's Theory of Transpersonal ...
Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Briefing in Simulation
Briefing for a clinical simulation in nursing school is an information session that sets the stage for a meaningful simulation activity. Improper or inadequate briefing practices can impact the quality of learning nursing ...
Differentiating Successful and Unsuccessful Nursing Students
Administrators of nursing programs in community colleges are aware of the need to retain and to graduate students to meet the growing demand for licensed practical nurses (LPNs). High attrition in a 2-year nursing program ...
Management of facilitators and obstacles experienced by Hispanics in their first semester of a baccalaureate nursing program
(2018-07-03)
Although an ethnically diverse workforce is believed to enhance patient care quality, Hispanics are under-represented in nursing. Recruiting and retaining Hispanic students in nursing programs is essential for greater ...
The lived experience of non-degreed learners from a time modified traditional baccalaureate in nursing program
By the year 2016, it is projected that a million new and replacement nurses will be needed throughout the United States. The traditional 4-year baccalaureate program alone cannot adequately sustain this demand. The immediacy ...
Teaching the spiritual dimension of nursing care: A survey of associate degree nursing programs in the southeast United States
Spirituality is a subject which is often neglected in nursing education. The purpose of this study was to determine associate degree nursing faculty’s perception of their ability to teach the spiritual dimension in the ...
The Concept of Interprofessional Collaboration in Baccalaureate Nursing Education Programs: A Descriptive Survey
In response to multiple social and political forces towards interprofessional collaboration in health care delivery, professional educators and others have espoused the need for educational programs which prepare future ...