The department was first established as the 4th Department of Clinical Medicine and Nursing in the School of Health Care and Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine University of Tokyo in 1953. The department was renamed to the department of Mental Hygiene according to the reorganization of the School of Health Care and Nursing into the School of Health Sciences in 1965. In 1992, the department unde...

Teaching ethics to nurses leads to their involvement in providing high quality care, enable them to duly encounter ethical issues. One of the key elements of educational systems is nursing instructors. Even though lots of studies show the role of instructors in students' learning, their role in promotion of professional ethics has been attended to less. The objective of this study is surveying ...

Preceptorships are an indispensable part of undergraduate clinical education and are prevalent among schools of nursing. However, there is wide interpretation and implementation of preceptorships which leaves many facets of the preceptor role poorly understood. Research has suggested preceptors experience several benefits from serving; however, the role has also been described as one leading to...

Many is the starry-eyed couple who have pledged their unending love for each other, sealed with those infamous words 'til death do us part', tossing the phrase liberally forth with no concept that death will indeed one day sever the bond between them, and facilitate in that remaining, one of the most momentous changes that they may ever have had to negotiate. That Australian society is a progre...

It is the students of nursing who will lead their discipline into an era of scientific advancement and professionalism (Radjenovic & Chally 1998, p.26). Therefore, it will be argued that, research and its methods should be taught to nursing students. There are a multitude of other reasons why research and its methods should be taught to students, some of which will be looked at in this paper. T...

(1) Hayfa Almutary, BN, RN, MN., PhD Candidate Lecturer, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. School of Nursing Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2) Ann Bonner, PhD, MA, B.App.Sc(Nurs), RN, MRCNA Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing Queensland University of Technology, Australia (3) Clint Douglas, RN, PhD Lecturer, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Aus...