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Effects of Anxiety Reducing Interventions on Performance Anxiety in Graduate Nurses
Every new nursing graduate is challenged to successfully transition from student to professional nurse. The stress involved in that transition can manifest itself as performance anxiety, a type of anxiety occurring when ...
Online Faculty Mentoring and Transition Balance in Family Nurse Practitioner Students
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of online faculty mentoring on Registered Nurse (RN) to Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) role transition balance during graduate education. Making the transition from RN ...
Understanding Reflection from the Perspective of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Across the nation, nurse educators are seeking to meet the needs of students with diverse learning characteristics within increasingly complex academic and clinical environments. One teaching-learning strategy that has ...
Attitudes of Nurses Toward Children with Disabilities
The attitudes of U.S. nurses toward children with disabilities have not been adequately measured over time and after an educational intervention. Disability content has not been a priority in nursing education and, if ...
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 ...
The Lived Experience of Nursing Students in Caring for Suffering Individuals: A Phenomenological Analysis
The purpose of this study was to illuminate the lived experience of nursing students in caring for individuals who were suffering. A phenomenological approach was utilized consisting of four iterative steps: purposive ...
The Effects of Pattern Recognition Based Simulation Scenarios on Symptom Recognition of Myocardial Infarction, Critical Thinking, Clinical Decision-making, and Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students
In the United States nearly 1 million annual new and recurrent myocardial infarctions (MI) occur with 10% of patients hospitalized with MI having unrecognized ischemic symptoms. Inexperienced nurses are expected to accurately ...
Medication Dosage Calculation: A Mathematical Intervention for Nursing Students
(2017-02-17)
Nurse educators continue to express concern over the struggle that nursing students have with mathematical calculations necessary to compute medication dosage. This applied dissertation designed, implemented, and evaluated ...
Towards an Informatics Competent Nursing Profession: Validation of the Self-assessment of Nursing Informatics Competency Scale (SANICS) Before and After Online Informatics Training
(2017-04-13)
Nurses should be involved in healthcare initiatives that incorporate informatics as an essential tool for improving health outcomes (IOM, 2010). However, nurses frequently report lack of competency to perform the most basic ...
Investigation into the Relationship Between Critical Thinking Skills and Clinical Judgment in the Nurse Practitioner Student
(2018-03-23)
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between critical thinking (CT) skills and clinical judgment in nurse practitioner (NP) students enrolled in an advanced practice educational program. ...