abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate student nurses' understanding of caring science theory and Eriksson's caring process model. The study is 'qualitative' by its nature, and grounded theory is taken as the main point of departure. Data for the cross-section study are collected through individual interviews with 60...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Eklund-Myrskog ED

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine nursing students' perceptions of student self-determination in a Finnish health-care institute and to find out whether background data were in any way associated with these perceptions. To do this we developed a 56-item Students Self-Determination Questionnaire (SSD...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Välimäki M,Itkonen J,Joutsela J,Koistinen T,Laine S,Paimensalo I,Siiskonen M,Suikkanen S,Ylitörmänen T,Ylönen K,Helenius H

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been recognized that nursing is essentially a practice-based discipline, underpinned by fundamental concepts which inform practice. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to discuss the need for an exploration of these concepts of nursing as a foundation to pre-registration nursing programmes. Secon...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Scammell J,Miller S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community mental health nurses (CMHNs) work in an increasingly complex health and social care environment. Over recent years, the evolving direction of general health service and specific mental health policy has directed CMHNs towards: the provision of clinically-effective interventions; a closer attention to meeting...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Hannigan B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are successful examples of interdisciplinary education this generally relates to pre-registration health-care professionals. Post-registration projects are usually confined to skills workshops or social science subjects, which rarely include medical staff. This project was unusual in its attempt to comb...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Bowles L,Jones HM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical competence or 'fitness for purpose' of newly qualified nurses continues to be an important professional and corporate issue that as yet has no objective means of assessment. A mixed group of managers, clinicians and educationalists was commissioned to develop a method for the measurement and evaluation of...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： O'Connor SE,Pearce J,Smith RL,Vogeli D,Walton P

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the nurse teacher in relation to the clinical setting has been debated for 20 years, yet it has been the subject of relatively few large studies. Recent studies led to inconclusive results, hence the nurse lecturer's clinical role remains an area of long-standing dispute. Changes in nurse education United ...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Ioannides AP

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of clinical competence in nursing represents a challenge to the profession. There is a need for assessment of practice skills through evaluative observation of performance but unfortunately such methods are not regularly used as a basis for assessment within most academic nursing institutions. Instead t...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Hardcastle M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of nurse education into higher education establishments following Working for Patients, Working Paper 10 (DOH 1989a) has seen changes to the funding and delivery of nurse education. The introduction of contracting for education initiated a business culture which subsumed previous relationships, affecti...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Moule P

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing partnerships between service and education is one strategy to enhance student learning. A pre-test-post-test design was used to compare changes in perceptions of self-efficacy expectations in the supervision of a team of four senior nursing students. A convenience sample of eight community practitioners com...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Laforêt-Fliesser Y,Ward-Griffin C,Beynon C

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The personal qualities associated with effective counselling have been discussed in the research and counselling literature. Counselling skills have been proposed as tools to be learned by student nurses. In this study of 162 students of nursing, respondents were asked to identify what they felt to be the important pe...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Burnard P

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group work is an important element in nurse education and practice, and is an issue of consistent relevance given the increasing emphasis on collaborative and multidisciplinary working, and the fact that most nurses' work involves them in a variety of groups. This study is ongoing research, and considers the experienc...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Lowry M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years the profession has acknowledged a schism between theories taught in the classroom and the practice of clinicians. This tends to arise from beliefs that knowledge which has been generalized (formalized) can be readily transferred to informal settings (practice). Whilst apprehension of formalized knowledg...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Spouse J

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students engagement in learning is predicated not only on interest but on the perception of relevance to their needs. A hermeneutic interpretation of narrative student evaluation data from an introduction to nursing lecture course that was taught by means of a practice-based phenomenological approach revealed a patter...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Wilkinson C,Peters L,Mitchell K,Irwin T,McCorrie K,MacLeod M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the first round of an action research project, this paper describes a between-methods triangulation process which examines the effectiveness of tutorials in a post-registration nursing degree course. The major concerns of the research team were with student learning approaches and student satisfaction. The research...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： French P,Callaghan P,Dudley-Brown S,Holroyd E,Sellick K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current health care environment requires practitioners with the skills to find and apply the best currently available evidence for effective health care, to contribute to the development of evidence-based practice protocols, and to evaluate the impact of utilizing validated research findings in practice. Current a...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： French B

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes research carried out with clinical agencies and former students to ascertain the effectiveness of curriculum design within the third year of a problem-based Bachelor of Nursing programme. It shows that where holistic care, time management, prioritization of care, working as a team member, and soph...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Alavi C,Cooke M,Crowe M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action learning group (ALG) has been described as a mechanism to facilitate reflective practice. As a member of such groups, I contend that although a potentially ideal setting for learning, the group may evoke repressed anxiety and distress caused by self-awareness and contact with patients. This, if not containe...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Haddock J

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic education for nursing has made a major impact on the development of nursing science, on the quality of nursing practice, and on the image of nursing. This was possible because of the close cooperation between education and nurses working in the various health services. Examples from several countries illustra...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Bergman R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper draws on the experience and expertise of nurse practitioners and teachers of nurses to report on significant issues facing the latter in their work. The findings form part of a larger study describing major changes in the role and work of nurse teachers resulting from Project 2000 initiatives. The rationale...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Camiah S

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of curricula in nurse education cannot be viewed in isolation from the socio-political context within which it exists. Changes in the prevailing political ideology have impacted on the social life of individuals, and the reflection of this can be traced in the curricula of nursing courses over time. To...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Caldwell K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the requirement for diploma students to 'use relevant literature and research to inform the practice of nursing' (Statutory Instrument No. 1456 1989 p 5), it is imperative that nurse educators develop effective strategies to promote student interest in research, and develop the knowledge and skills required to u...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Burrows DE,Baillie L

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study considered the factors that influenced the branch choice of students on a nursing undergraduate programme. On entry to the course students had to choose to pursue a programme either in adult general nursing or mental health nursing to honours degree level. A review of the literature on Project 2000 and fact...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Pye SA,Whyte LA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the effectiveness of using simulations to test critical thinking ability of nursing students. Nine medical and surgical videotaped vignettes were selected from the critical thinking component of the Performance Based Development System (PBDS). Pathology, difficulty ratin...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Johannsson SL,Wertenberger DH

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For about two decades, student learning in the context of professional and higher education, more generally, has been investigated by groups of researchers in countries such as Sweden, the UK, Australia and South Africa. The focus in many of these studies has been on the experience of students as they undertake comple...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Cust J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issues of Quality and Quality Assurance in nurse education, have become prominent in the design, management and marketing of courses. However, quality is a concept which has many meanings. One of the central ideas which has emerged from the current discourses on quality, is that of the 'customer'. In the new busin...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Playle JF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated nursing programmes for non-nursing college graduates were developed primarily to address a shortage of nurses in the USA. This article describes a unique Canadian programme which has evolved in response to demand from an increasingly older and well-qualified applicant pool for recognition of their relevant...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： O'Mara L,Byrne C,Down W

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Project 2000 diploma course has established ethics as a core component of the nursing curriculum. As a consequence there has been a plethora of nursing ethics books which justify their existence on the notion that nurses are recognizing the ethical nature of their work and seeking ethical guidance. It remains to b...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Sellman D

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper commences with a brief introduction during which the foundations are laid for the ensuing discussion, in which learning, practical knowledge and expertise, and reflective practice are briefly analysed. Thereafter, it is argued that mentorship is best understood as relationship and function, neither of which...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Jarvis P

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essay writing has recently emerged as an important tool in the appraisal of nursing students at pre- and post-registration level. However, despite its popularity, this activity seems to be somewhat taken for granted. Undoubtedly some nursing students find the transition to essay writing in Higher Education difficult. ...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Brennan MJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurse educators must keep abreast of contemporary learning theory so that their teaching reflects current ideas of best practice. In view of this, it is important to report on recent developments in the field of learning. Of particular significance is the fact that behaviouristic explanations of learning have largely ...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Cust J

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The learning styles of 192 Registered General Nursing/DipHE students was determined using the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory prior to the students having any formal contact with lecturing staff. The percentage of students having a predominantly concrete learning style was 53.7%, while 46.3% were predominantly reflecti...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Cavanagh SJ,Hogan K,Ramgopal T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Racial inequality in nursing is not a new concern and no doubt some nurses have and are still making stringent efforts singularly or through various organisations to address this issue. This paper outlines the current position within the context of racial equality, the objectives of nurse education and proposes how eq...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Foolchand MK

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses an attempt to introduce liberal studies into a Project 2000 nurse education course. The paper reviews the origins of liberal studies and other attempts to nurture the 'whole person' in further and higher education, and describes a 'contract learning' approach to liberal studies adopted at one coll...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Pulsford D

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is talk of a crisis in Germany ('Pflegenotstand'); the lack of staff and the fall in the number of students therefore make it most important for nursing schools to reflect on their problem management capacity. This paper offers some of the findings from a research study which inquires into why students discontin...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Posiadly F

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inception of Project 2000 and its new curriculum has set a requirement for the teaching of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the nursing programme. Subjects covered are Health Promotion, Sociology/Social Policy, Psychology, Research and Computers. These subjects are complex and this paper outlines the problems an...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Rhodes J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report on a study that was conducted on the controversy about the student status of students undergoing preparation for becoming professional nurses. One view says there is, the other view says there is no supernumerary status in South African institutions for nurses' education. A survey was conducted on a p...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Mashaba GT

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much importance is attached to continuing professional education for nurses, midwives and health visitors, there is a paucity of empirical studies on the subject. This article reviews research in continuing education for midwives and adds to the body of literature by reporting on findings on continuing educat...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Robinson S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the students' experience of student-centred teaching and learning strategies within a shortened Common Foundation Programme (CFP) for Graduates. The perceptions of 'student-centreness' and its use as experienced by the students is addressed using material generated from on-going research using new-...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Jasper MA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable impetus in nursing education to identify ways of ensuring that students utilize fully their opportunities for learning and achieve their fullest potential. To this end an avenue of research has evolved which sets out to identify the preferred learning styles of students. Claims are advanced...

journal_title：Nurse education today

authors： Cavanagh SJ,Coffin DA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00