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The health beliefs of Papua New Guinea nursing students
The present study was conducted to determine if a Western theoretical model, developed to explain the abstract structure of health beliefs, would provide appropriate guidelines to construct an instrument to assess health ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vertical violence and the student nurse: Is this toxic for professional identity development?
This narrative inquiry centers on student nurses’ stories of vertical violence perpetuated by clinical registered nursing staff and the meaning that students associate with this phenomenon. Student nurses are the very young ...
Exploring incivility among nursing and health science students: A descriptive study
Incivility has infiltrated our institutions of higher learning as well as the world of nursing. All too familiar in nursing is the phrase “eating their young,” which aptly describes how nurses treat other nurses, even ...
White (Non-Hispanic) Nurse Practitioner Student Perceptions of Hispanic Patients
As the United States continues to become increasingly more diverse, the health care industry must adjust and develop improved strategies for the effective provision of health care services to all. The Hispanic population ...
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 ...
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 ...
Increasing Resilience in Adolescent Nursing Students
(2017-04-13)
Nursing students not only face the same developmental challenges as othercollege students, but also experience unique stressors that contribute to increased risk for negative outcomes. The intimate nature of patient care, ...
Student Engagement in Nursing School: A Secondary Analysis of the National Survey of Student Engagement Data
(2017-04-13)
Student engagement has received considerable attention in higher education research because of the link between increased student knowledge, greater student satisfaction with educational experience, and increased student ...