Zamanzadeh, Vahid Ghahramanian, Akram Valizadeh, Leila Bagheriyeh, Farzaneh Lynagh, Marita
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BMC Nursing
BackgroundNursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to re...
Deschênes, Marie-France Goudreau, Johanne Fernandez, Nicolas
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Nurse education today
the digital educational strategy based on script concordance is an educational method that has been attracting increasing attention in healthcare education programs to fostering the development of clinical reasoning. It includes a digitized Script Concordance Test with incorporated expert feedback. However, the learning strategies required of stude...
Cannity, Kerry M Banerjee, Smita C Hichenberg, Shira Leon-Nastasi, Angelina D Howell, Frances Coyle, Nessa Zaider, Talia Parker, Patricia A
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Nurse education in practice
Nurses must demonstrate effective communication across complex interpersonal domains, as emphasized by numerous professional healthcare organizations. However, formal communication skills training has been only modestly integrated into baccalaureate nursing programs, and of those studied systematically, there are notable methodological concerns. Th...
DiGerolamo, Kimberly A Chen-Lim, Mei Lin
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Journal of pediatric nursing
Magnet®-designated hospitals are seeking to reduce the frequency of falls that lead to injury, which is considered a hospital-acquired condition. Patients with cancer are at high risk to fall, due to multiple factors. Synthesis of the literature supports team efforts and shared learning sessions for patient-care staff as part of the fall prevention...
Granel, Nina Leyva-Moral, Juan Manuel Morris, Jenny Šáteková, Lenka Grosemans, Joep Bernabeu-Tamayo, Maria Dolors
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Nurse education in practice
Nurses should be culturally competent to care appropriately to all patient groups. Whilst there are many opportunities to obtain clinical experiences, there are less curriculum-based opportunities to develop cultural competencies. This multiple cross-sectional study aimed to explore the development of intercultural awareness, knowledge, and compete...
Solberg, Laurence M Campbell, Colleen S Jones, Kimberly Vaughn, Ivana Suryadevara, Uma Fernandez, Carmen Shorr, Ronald
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Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
Recognition and documentation of delirium is a challenge in the hospital. Education programs lack standardized screening tools. The presence of dementia or depression contribute to poor recognition of delirium. Many front-line healthcare workers attribute delirium to dementia, often misidentifying or delaying a correct diagnosis and in turn, treatm...
Arrogante, Oscar González-Romero, Gracia María Carrión-García, Laura Polo, Alberto
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International emergency nursing
It is essential to determine and treat the reversible causes of cardiac arrest, so emergency nurses must acquire the competencies needed for its adequate management. 106 undergraduate nursing students participated in a cross-sectional study, using a mixed-method. Simulated scenarios recreated critically ill patients with diagnoses of potentially re...
Yoshida, Midori Iwamoto, Saori Okahisa, Reiko Kishida, Sachi Sakama, Minoru Honda, Eiichi
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Nurse education today
The Japanese have had three experiences of radiation disasters: the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster. The former two experiences have been covered in compulsory education programs. In light of these incidents, a strong fear of radiation has pervaded people of several generat...
McEwing, Evan
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Nurse education today
Despite well-documented healthcare disparities in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, nursing education has lagged other health professions in promoting culturally competent care to members of this minority group. Using national guidelines, the author developed an educational program for BSN students to improve competency ...
Bouchoucha, Stéphane L Kilpatrick, Mataya Lucas, James J Phillips, Nicole M Hutchinson, Ana
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Infection, disease & health
Standard Precautions have been demonstrated to limit infection transmission in the healthcare setting. Despite their mandated use, adherence by healthcare professionals remains suboptimal. A nursing curriculum embedding infection prevention and control is essential in equipping future healthcare professionals with the skills and knowledge to improv...