Browsing Sigma Nursing Education Events by Posting Date
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Operationalizing nursing education research
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: The depth and breadth of a nurse's understanding within the context of care is vitally important to achieving successful patient outcomes. Nursing education is calling for ... -
The Experiences of Nurses Returning to School for the Baccalaureate: A Metasynthesis
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014 Aim/Purpose: This metasynthesis assists the interpretation of qualitative research performed to explore the experience of registered nurses who return to school to pursue a ... -
My patient died: A national study of nursing students' perceptions after experiencing a patient death
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Death is an emotionally charged and high stress situation for everyone. The majority of nurses will experience the death of a patient. Nursing students also encounter death and ... -
Transition to academic nurse educator: How does readiness, confidence, and number of children impact career change?
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: The nursing faculty shortage dictates the need to recruit and retain excellence in the academic nurse educator role. This study investigated the relationships among academic ... -
Factors that contribute to a successful nursing student's decision to withdraw from a Bachelor of Science in nursing program before graduation
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: There is an extreme shortage of registered nurses in the United States (U.S.). This shortage is projected to grow to 260,000 RNs by the year 2025 (AACN, 2010a). In order to ... -
A qualitative study to evaluate an end-of-life nursing course
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014 The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore nursing students' experiences, perceptions, and attitudes about the integration of three professional apprenticeships ... -
Impacting Student Success: The Importance of Gender Diversity within Nursing Education
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: There are factors that affect the nursing profession's ability to recruit, retain and successfully graduate male nurses, including lack of acknowledgement of the diverse needs ... -
A Phenomenological Inquiry of the Experiences and Perceptions of Simulation Among ADN Students With Prior Health Care Practice
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: While the development of simulation learning for nursing students has gained national attention among nurse educators, there is a lack of literature to support specific planning ... -
Perception of student nurses' bullying behaviors and coping strategies used in clinical settings
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: Purpose: to explore bullying behaviors experienced by Damanhour nursing students in clinical nursing education, and to evaluate resources used to cope with these bullying ... -
The effect of two preparatory interventions on performance on comprehensive assessments and the National Council Licensure Examination of graduating baccalaureate nursing students
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: This study compared the effectiveness of two different preparatory interventions on comprehensive assessments by achievement level and degree status of graduating nursing ... -
Active teaching strategies for a sense of salience: End-of-life communication
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: The problem addressed was twofold: First, passive lecture prevents transfer to situational decision-making, or a sense of salience (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010). ... -
Dedicated Education Units: Partnerships that Promote Nursing Leadership Development
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: Recent recommendations for the development of nurse leaders at every level require that we examine how leadership competencies are most effectively developed in nurses. ... -
The impact of critical thinking upon clinical judgment during simulation with senior nursing students
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: The purpose was to examine the impact of critical thinking (CT) upon clinical judgment (CJ) during pediatric medication administration. Objective Structured Clinical Evaluations ... -
Exploring nurse educators' perceptions of the subcultures within nursing as a means to bridge the practice-education gap: Findings from an ethnographic study
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Nurse Educators function at the intersection of three subcultures within nursing: academia, service (practice) and organizational cultures. Each of these subcultures has unique ... -
Cultural Competence and Confidence in Nursing Students: A Triangulated Approach to Evaluate Domains of Learning
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Purpose and Theoretical Rationale: The purpose of this triangulated comparative design of cohorts of pre-licensure nursing students is to describe trends over time in self-efficacy ... -
Student perceptions, experiences and outcomes in two studies of precepted and traditional clinical learning environments
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: As health care increases in complexity, clinical learning continues remains a critical issue in nursing education. This session compares the findings from two similar studies ... -
Preparation to provide spiritual care: A qualitative study of recent baccalaureate nursing graduates
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Holistic assessment including the spiritual needs of patients is a standard of practice for RNs. There is a paucity of research on preparing nurses for their role in the spiritual ... -
Can nursing content standardized tests predict NCELX-RN outcomes?
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: This study was to investigate effective predictors of NCLEX-RN outcomes on the first-attempt among nursing content standardized tests (adult medical-surgical, fundamentals for ... -
Faculty knowledge, attitude and intent to provide accommodations to nursing students with disabilities: Are faculty prepared to meet the needs of diverse populations?
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: In the United States 54 million people, or one in five, live with at least one disability. Because a growing number of students entering college have learning, mental health ... -
Evaluation of an Objective Based Formative Clinical Evaluation Tool
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: The co-investigators, as nurse educators, identified a problem with the current formative evaluation tool that was used in a beginning clinical course in a baccalaureate nursing ...
