Our objective was to compare the impact of a training program in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the knowledge and skills of in-service and preservice nurses at prespecified time points. This repeated-measures quasiexperimental study was conducted in the pediatric emergency and ICU of a tertiary care teaching hospital between January and March 2011. We assessed the baseline kno...

Background: Learning in skills centers has a long tradition in nursing education. Nurse educators struggle to substantiate their opinions on the efficacy of simulation technologies over traditional methods of instruction and it is suggested that they should re-evaluate their methods when teaching psychomotor skills. A necessary step before evaluation is to unravel what the students are actually...

The goal was to explore the clinical relevance of accurate understanding of patients' thoughts and feelings. Between 2010 and 2012, four groups of participants (nursing students, medical students, internal medicine residents, and undergraduate students) took a test of accuracy in understanding the thoughts and feelings of patients who were videorecorded during their actual medical visits and wh...

NURS 304. Principles of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervie...

Introduction: One of the most important problems in student's education is academic failure. Identifying factors that affecting academic achievement and pay attention to these factors is a stride toward success. Students' academic achievement and related factors have priority in education research. This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning study strategies and academic a...

NURS 304. Principles of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervie...

Critical thinking is difficult to teach because it is an abstract conceptual skill and there is no standard model. The authors discuss the development and use of a computer simulation that stimulates critical thinking in nursing students. Computer simulations are an efficient method of teaching students content and critical thinking skills without exhausting severely limited clinical time or pl...

NURS 304. Priniciples of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervi...