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Student attrition and retention: Untangling the Gordian knot
24 November 2011
In 333 B.C., Alexander III of Macedon (now known to us as Alexander the Great) had invaded Asia Minor and arrived in the central mountains at the town of Gordium, near modern Yassıhüyük in Turkey. He ...
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Michael Sabin,
(on behalf of the Scottish Recruitment and Retention Delivery Group)
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337-338
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| Big Ideas Series |
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From Novice to Expert: Benner's legacy for nurse education
19 December 2011
Like most nurse academics, I am familiar with the basic tenets of Benner's seminal book From Novice to Expert, although like many of my colleagues, I had never sat down and read it from cover to cover...
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Lyn Gardner
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339-340
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The assessment of drug calculation skills — Time to rethink the whole process
08 December 2011
Nurses and student nurses require assessment of their practice to ensure that they are meeting the standards specified by the nursing professional regulator; the Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC). T...
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Kerri Wright
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341-344
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Perceived acculturative stress and sense of coherence in Chinese nursing students in Australia
06 June 2011
Summary: University schools of nursing in Australia are the main providers of nursing education programmes for international students. The large cohort of overseas students requires that universities,...
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Flora X. He,
Violeta Lopez,
Maria C. Leigh
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345-350
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Assessment of student nurses in practice: A comparison of theoretical and practical assessment results in England
06 June 2011
Summary: This study was undertaken in response to concerns raised by Duffy (2003) that assessors of practice were reluctant to fail student nurses in assessments. This generated doubts about the fitne...
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Louise A. Hunt,
Paula McGee,
Robin Gutteridge,
Malcolm Hughes
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351-355
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Graduating Finnish nurse students' interest in gerontological nursing — A survey study
13 June 2011
Summary: This study aimed to examine nurse students' interest in gerontological nursing and the factors enhancing and decreasing that interest. The quantitative data was collected in the autumn of 200...
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Sanna Koskinen,
Maija Hupli,
Jouko Katajisto,
Leena Salminen
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356-360
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Evaluation of doctoral nursing education in Japan by students, graduates, and faculty: A comparative study based on a cross-sectional questionnaire survey
13 June 2011
Summary: Evaluation of doctoral education in nursing is needed with the rapid increase in doctoral nursing programs in Japan. This study aimed to compare the evaluations of doctoral nursing education ...
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Satoko Nagata,
Misuzu F. Gregg,
Yuko Miki,
Azusa Arimoto,
Sachiyo Murashima,
Mi Ja Kim
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361-367
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Emotion work in paramedic practice: The implications for nurse educators
06 June 2011
Summary: Contemporary paramedic practice involves the emergency assessment, management, treatment and transport of the public with minor and major; potentially life threatening conditions (Caroline, 2...
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Angela Williams
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368-372
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Student nurses' perceptions of mental health care: Validation of a questionnaire
20 June 2011
Summary: Aim: This article describes the results of a study into the psychometric properties of a questionnaire about student nurses' perceptions of mental health care. The questionnaire was construct...
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Alex van der Heijden,
Jaap van der Bijl,
Corine H.M. Latour,
Hanneke Hoekstra,
Berno van Meijel
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373-377
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A work-based educational intervention to support the development of personal resilience in nurses and midwives
04 July 2011
Summary: A work-based educational programme was the intervention used in a collective case study aiming to develop, strengthen and maintain personal resilience amongst fourteen nurses and midwives. Th...
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Glenda McDonald,
Debra Jackson,
Lesley Wilkes,
Margaret H. Vickers
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378-384
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Continuing professional development programmes for rural nurses involved in palliative care delivery: An integrative review
06 June 2011
Summary: Purpose: To review published studies evaluating the impact of continuing professional development (CPD) programmes on rural nurses palliative care capabilities in order to inform the developm...
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Jane L. Phillips,
Michael Piza,
Jane Ingham
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385-392
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Nurses learn caring theory by being co-researchers in a surgical setting
09 June 2011
Summary: This paper present findings from research on the following issues: How nurses from surgical unit learn a caring theory by being co-researchers in a research group. The aim was to describe the...
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Lena Boussaid,
Monica Dahlgren,
Lillemor Lindwall
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393-398
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Nurse students' medication competence — An integrative review of the associated factors
08 June 2011
Summary: Aim: The aim of this review was to identify factors associated with nurse students' medication competence. Background: Registered nurses play an important role in safe and effective medicatio...
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Virpi Sulosaari,
Satu Kajander,
Maija Hupli,
Risto Huupponen,
Helena Leino-Kilpi
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399-405
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Daring to be different: A qualitative study exploring the education needs of the nurse consultant
20 June 2011
Summary: Nurse consultants are recognised experts and are one of the most senior nursing ‘clinical’ grades. How these roles have developed has varied but all require an armoury of expanded and extende...
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Franks Helen,
Howarth Michelle
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406-411
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Nursing homes as learning environments: The impact of professional dialogue
04 April 2011
Summary: Nursing students' clinical experiences are important with respect to their impact on attitudes towards care for older people and preferences for future workplaces. The purpose of this paper i...
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Mari Wolff Skaalvik,
Ketil Normann,
Nils Henriksen
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412-416
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The influence of an undergraduate problem/context based learning program on evolving professional nursing graduate practice
01 April 2011
Summary: Graduates' perception of the value of their undergraduate program is a critical component of professional program evaluation and contributes a viewpoint rarely reported in the literature. It ...
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Bev Williams,
Jude Spiers,
Ann Fisk,
Liz Richards,
Barb Gibson,
Willy Kabotoff,
Debra McIlwraith,
Aziza Sculley
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417-421
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The cost of the objective structured clinical examination on an Italian nursing bachelor's degree course
07 April 2011
Summary: The OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) is considered the most valid and reliable method for assessing the clinical skills of students training for health professions, but its us...
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A. Palese,
G. Bulfone,
E. Venturato,
N. Urli,
T. Bulfone,
A. Zanini,
S. Fabris,
M. Tomietto,
I. Comisso,
C. Tosolini,
S. Zuliani,
A. Dante
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422-426
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Chinese baccalaureate nursing students' readiness for self-directed learning
01 April 2011
Summary: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 536 Chinese nursing students to explore students' readiness for self-directed learning (SDL). The Self-Directed Learning Readiness (S...
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Hao Bin Yuan,
Beverly A. Williams,
Jin Bo Fang,
Dong Pang
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427-431
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Policy analysis and advocacy in nursing education: The Nursing Education Council of British Columbia framework
13 April 2011
Summary: Academic nursing leaders play a crucial role in the policy context for nursing education. Effectiveness in this role requires that they work together in presenting nursing education issues fr...
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Susan M. Duncan,
Sally Thorne,
Jocelyne Van Neste-Kenny,
Betty Tate
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432-437
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The importance of dialogue in student nurses' clinical education
18 April 2011
Summary: Aim: Develop in-hospital tutorials where the hospital unit's nurse preceptor, the college teacher and student nurses discuss clinical experiences and together acquire knowledge. Method: Liter...
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Grethe Haugan,
Ann-Hallfrid Sørensen,
Ingrid Hanssen
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438-442
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Web-based video and feedback in the teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation
06 May 2011
Summary: Knowledge and skills relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation tend to be lost over time. The combination of simulation sessions with online video records and online feedback allows for an en...
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Tracey Bowden,
Angela Rowlands,
Margot Buckwell,
Stephen Abbott
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443-447
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Evaluating high-fidelity human simulators and standardized patients in an undergraduate nursing health assessment course
12 May 2011
Summary: Background: An undergraduate nursing health assessment course provided three experiential modalities for practicing health assessment skills: high-fidelity human simulators (HFS), standardize...
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Marian Luctkar-Flude,
Barbara Wilson-Keates,
Monica Larocque
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448-452
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Swedish nursing students' experience of aspects important for their learning process and their ability to handle the complexity of the nursing degree program
08 June 2011
Summary: The aim of the study was to explore nursing students' experiences of aspects important for their learning process and their ability to handle the complexity of the nursing degree program. The...
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Petra Lilja Andersson,
Anna-Karin Edberg
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453-457
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Evaluation of practical exercises using an intravenous simulator incorporating virtual reality and haptics device technologies
13 June 2011
Summary: This study confirmed the educational effectiveness of practical exercises (PE) using intravenous (IV) simulators incorporating virtual reality (VR)/haptics (based on the sense of touch) devic...
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Eun-Young Jung,
Dong Kyun Park,
Young Ho Lee,
Hyun Sook Jo,
Yong Su Lim,
Rae Woong Park
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458-463
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Students' experiences of blended learning across a range of postgraduate programmes
07 June 2011
Summary: The article describes the students' experiences of taking a blended learning postgraduate programme in a school of nursing and midwifery. The indications to date are that blended learning as ...
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Siobhan Smyth,
Catherine Houghton,
Adeline Cooney,
Dympna Casey
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464-468
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| The Student Experience |
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Untangling a complex issue: An overview of initiatives to support nursing and midwifery student recruitment, selection and retention in Scottish Universities
05 April 2012
Summary: The reasons behind attrition rates in nursing and midwifery are many and complex. However, of the four UK countries, Scotland has been consistently cited as having the highest attrition rate ...
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Michael Sabin,
Ruth Taylor,
Colin Tilley
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469-474
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| Book Reviews |
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Book review
30 May 2011
“Supervising the Reflective Practitioner” is written from an inter-professional perspective and is of equal value to educators and practitioners from the fields of both health and social care. Scaife ...
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Charlotte Robson
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475
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Book review
24 August 2011
This book is a “collectively produced multi authored book” that discusses the contributions health service users and carers can make to the education of health care professionals in universities. The ...
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Patricia Gillen
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475-476
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