background: nurse educators have an important role in clinical learning that can reduce nursing students' stress. however,   a few studies have been conducted on the relationship between nursing students’ tension and clinical educators 'role in such situations, in iran. the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between nursing students’ stress and perception of nurse educ...

Needs assessment facilitates mental health services planning, provision, and evaluation. This study aimed to (a) validate a new instrument, the Montreal Assessment of Needs Questionnaire (MANQ), and (b) use this to assess variations and predictors of need (number and seriousness) in 297 individuals with severe mental disorders for 18 months, during implementation of the Quebec Mental Health Act...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a delayed and/or protracted response to exceptionally threatening or catastrophic events. The event is persistently remembered or relived with concomitant distress sometimes even leading to harmful life-long psychological sequelae. We present a 6-year old boy who developed the classical syndrome following corporal punishment at school when his class teac...

While motivation is of great interest to computing educators, relatively little work has been done on understanding faculty attitudes toward student motivation. Two previous qualitative studies of instructor attitudes found results identical to those from other disciplines, but neither study considered whether instructors perceive student motivation to be more important in certain computing cla...

Medical education in North America changed dramatically during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although American medical schools had begun to establish ties with major universities in the 870s,1 few physicians in this country had any meaningful exposure to high quality basic science. According to William G. Rothstein,2 there were 65 medical schools in 860, 75 in 870, 00 i...

I n this issue of the CJHP, pharmacist Marie Craig shares her experience in educating and supporting patients at the Arthritis Clinic in Newmarket, Ontario. 1 This important role for pharmacists is well recognized by our Canadian professional and academic associations, as it is globally. In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the role of teacher as 1 of the 7 key responsibiliti...

OBJECTIVE Analyzing the policy transfer of directly observed treatment of tuberculosis from the perspective of nursing. METHOD This is a descriptive study with qualitative approach, which had 10 nurses of the Family Health Strategy in São Paulo as subjects. The interviews were carried out between May and June 2013, and were adopted the technique of thematic content analysis and the referentia...

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 ...