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Health literacy preparation of BSN students: A basic qualitative study
Understanding the complexity of multiple health conditions, treatment options, and medications requires a high level of health literacy. Yet, 88% of Americans have some deficiency in health literacy. The nursing literature ...
Primary prevention emphasis and self-reported health behaviors of nursing students
The current climate of healthcare reform demands an increased curricular emphasis on primary prevention, yet the relationship between the level of curricular emphasis on primary prevention and the health behaviors of nursing ...
Motivation to learn, learner independence, intellectual curiosity and self-directed learning readiness of prelicensure sophomore baccalaureate nursing students
Attrition is a major concern in schools of nursing, and research shows that it is most prevalent in baccalaureate nursing students as they first encounter their initial nursing and core science courses. Many nursing students ...
Investigation of the effect of IVI with three modes of instruction on learning and attitude towards the instructional media
Social Cognitive Theory proposes educational perspectives believed to facilitate the learning process. Social learning focuses on the interactive function of person, behavior, and environment. The mechanism for learning ...
Nursing students perceptions of their role in the learning process
(2018-05-10)
Nurse educators have identified oversaturated curriculum as a factor influencing adequate preparation of nursing students for beginning practice. The dynamic nature of healthcare contributed to content laden ...
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 ...
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ...
African-American baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of nursing programs and factors that support or restrict academic success
The nursing literature is limited in reporting African-American nursing students' perceptions of nursing programs and factors that are viewed as supportive of or restrictive to academic success in this selected population. ...
Environmental and personal predictors of professional behaviors among baccalaureate nursing students
This non-experimental, explanatory study utilized a comparative survey design to test a conceptual model developed by Milisa Manojlovich (2003), to examine whether proposed relationships between environmental and personal ...
Exploring student perceptions of retention issues in a 3-year baccalaureate-level nursing program
The nursing shortage, a major concern for the United States, has a multitude of causative factors. Nursing education has been tasked with helping to decrease the shortage of qualified registered nurses. Poor retention of ...