Novice nurse educator entry-level competency to teach: a national study.

Partnering to Establish and Study Simulation in International Nursing Education.

The purpose of this article was to describe an international partnership to establish and study simulation in India. A pilot study was performed to determine interrater reliability among faculty new to simulation when evaluating nursing student competency performance. Interrater reliability was below the ideal agreement level. Findings in this study underscore the need to obtain baseline interr...

Nurse educator orientation: professional development that promotes retention.

Formalized orientation can prepare and socialize nurse educators for academic roles, increasing job satisfaction and retention. This article describes a community college nursing faculty orientation program that includes goals, pre- and post-assessment, a group-determined instructional plan, support and mentoring, and outcomes evaluation. Posttest scores showed that at program completion, perce...

Concept of evidence based nursing and nursing education

Introduction: Contemporary advances in technology and sciences parallel to changeable patients' status make it essential to nurses to combine their skills and knowledge with evidences in order to identify patients' problems, care planning, implementation and evaluation through interaction with other health team members. Nurses must be able to make clinical decisions independently which is possi...

An initial investigation of the applicability of the Dreyfus skill acquisition model to the professional development of nurse educators.

AIM This investigation represents an attempt to design and validate a skill acquisition model for the nurse educator role. BACKGROUND The preparation and role development of nurse educators has become a significant focus for the profession.The NLN Nurse Educator Competencies and skill acquisition theory provide a basis for studying skill acquisition among nurse educators. METHOD A total of ...

Preceptor programs: increasing student self-confidence and competency.