Browsing Sigma Nursing Education Events by Issue Date
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Factors Influencing Retention of Students in an RN-to-BSN Program
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Background: RN-to-BSN nursing programs fulfill a needed link to the BSN degree for nurses who hold associate degrees or diploma degrees. Although enrollment rates are currently ... -
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 ... -
Grading Rubrics: What's in it for Faculty?
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Higher education literature recognizes the vital role that grading rubrics exert on improving student academic performance (Howell, 2011). As an assessment tool, rubrics allocate ... -
Creating and Sustaining Education and Practice Synergy on a Dedicated Education Unit
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: The Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) clinical education model has the potential to increase pre-licensure nursing program capacity, ensure stable clinical placement sites, blend ... -
Preparation to Provide Spiritual Care: A Qualitative Study of Recent Baccalaureate Nursing Graduates
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Problem/Purpose: 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 ... -
Assessment of Nursing Faculty Development Needs: An Evidence-Based Approach
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: As the largest public university in the country, the City University of New York graduates over 1000 nurses each year and is the largest supplier of registered nurses in the New ... -
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 ... -
Faculty Perceptions of Nurse Educator Certification
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Certification is designed to protect the public, recognize and encourage professional achievement, and enhance professionalism. While certification of nurses in areas of clinical ... -
Using Narratives to Inform Nursing Ethics Education
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Background: During end-of-life care, nurses face ethical dilemmas on a daily basis with minimal operative scholastic preparation and professional expertise. The diverse source ... -
Are We Having Fun Yet?: Instructional Delivery Methods that Enhance Online Student Satisfaction
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: The study determined the relationship between six instructional delivery methods in the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) and the satisfaction levels of ... -
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 ... -
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). ... -
Student Engagement with Web 2.0 Technology
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: The use of Web 2.0 for educational programs in nursing and healthcare is expanding. The term Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of internet-based services that is 'writable ... -
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 ... -
A Nursing Specific Undergraduate Student Satisfaction Survey Across a Canadian Collaborative Nursing Program
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: Accurate measurement of university student satisfaction has been associated with later professional attitudes, career commitment, and retention. Universities need to become ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Qualitative Study to Evaluate an End-of-LIfe Nursing Course
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014 Background: Nurses are crucial for attending to patient and family needs throughout the dying process. Many obstacles hinder a patient's wishes about dying, including how nurses ... -
Promoting Academic-Practice Partnerships: The Delphi Way
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: Promoting academic-practice partnerships has become a reality for faculty members from neighboring schools of nursing who collaborate with clinical nurses through the Nursing ...
