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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Faculty Knowledge, Attitude and Intent to Provide Accomodations to Nursing Students with Disabilites: 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 or ... -
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 ... -
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 relationship between nursing students' perceived sense of belongingness and their willingness to self-report medications errors in the clinical practice setting: A feasibility study
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: Medication errors threaten the physical and emotional well-being of the Canadian population (Mayo & Duncan, 2004). There is a paucity of published studies examining medication ...
