background: self-esteem is essential for clinical judgments. nursing students in clinical environments should make a bridge between theoretical education and clinical function. this study was aimed to survey the effect of guided questioning in peer groups on nursing students’ self-esteem and clinical learning. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental study, all nursing students in seme...

BACKGROUND Clinical supervision represents an important aspect in the development of nursing students’ clinical skills. At the School of Nursing (SoN) the clinical supervisors employed by the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have limited contact sessions with students in the clinical setting. However, with the increase in student numbers a need was identified to strengthen the support given...

conclusions nursing students support in the clinical education requires a nurturing care; a care that leads to the sense of worthiness and respectability in students and contributes to the improvement of their clinical abilities. results in the current study, the main theme, nurturance, was emerged with seven subthemes of humanistic behavior with the student, respectful communication with stude...

This report attempts to ascertain the current state of, and outstanding issues relating to, nursing diagnosis, as taught in nursing education in Japan, and to obtain basic resources that will allow the improvement of said nursing diagnosis training. A self-completed, anonymous survey was carried out in regard to teaching staff responsible for classes in “nursing process” or “nursing diagnosis” ...

BACKGROUND With limited available public health nursing clinical placements, nurse educators are challenged to create alternative learning experiences that engage students. METHOD Nursing faculty developed three Second Life® virtual learning scenarios in family health, disaster preparedness, and home safety areas of interest as a supplement to clinical experiences for undergraduate senior nur...

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the pattern of clinical pathway management upon the healthcare nursing for patients who were diagnosed with malignant tumors. Methods: A total of 186 intern nurses were recruited and randomly divided into the control (n=90) and clinical pathway groups (n=96). In the control group, all the intern nurses received traditional teaching management, and their coun...

Promoting clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students through application of the Outcome Present State Test (OPT) Model of Clinical Reasoning, is a challenge that can be successfully managed through effective teaching-learning strategies. Empirical evidence to support teaching strategies that foster both cognitive and metacognitive skill acquisition is limited. The purpose of this rese...

conclusions knowledge management can improve the qwl in nursing personnel in zahedan teaching hospitals. based on the findings of the study, hospital managers, especially head nurses, could play a crucial role in improving qwl by institutionalization of knowledge management in nursing personnel and sharing and developing knowledge to advance the practice. results knowledge management score in s...