PREAMBLE AORN advocates for the inclusion of learning activities in the perioperative setting in all undergraduate professional nursing curricula. The perioperative setting is a prime area where the nursing process can be applied. This application can be integrated into the existing curricula of nursing programs and contribute to the desired end-of-program outcomes. The perioperative setting al...

This technical report describes the creation and use of a cervical dilation and effacement model in a pre-licensure nursing course in reproductive health. Vaginal examination is typically taught in reproductive health courses; however, nursing students do not always have sufficient opportunity to practice on actual patients. This low-cost task-training model provides undergraduate nursing stude...

BACKGROUND The objective of this review was to determine whether the use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) would provide greater support in developing undergraduate nursing students' clinical reasoning, in comparison to more traditional resources such as textbooks. SEARCH STRATEGY The search strategy sought to identify published data from five electronic databases: CINAHL, Medline, Cochra...

The purpose of this research was to construct a nursing care concept, based on the understanding of nurses and students from an undergraduate course. This is a qualitative study. A focus group was used to construct a nursing care concept for use in undergraduate teaching. The research was carried out at Faculdade Católica Rainha do Sertão in Quixadá, CE, Brazil, from August to December 2007. Th...

(2004). Using an interpretive research group to teach communication and understanding in undergraduate psychiatric/mental health nursing students. Abstract: An interpretive research group based in existential phenomenology is used to facilitate student learning about skills central to nursing-communicating, listening, and a genuine understanding of "the other"-in an undergraduate psychiatric-me...

This study identifies some undergraduate nursing students’ imaginary manifestations concerning themselves and care delivered to patients with orthopedic and/or trauma disorders. The Social Poetics method was used and the research group was composed of 15 undergraduate students. Only the categories and subcategories exclusively related to the “student” are presented in this paper. Data revealed ...

Acknowledging that individuals' preferences for learning vary, faculty in an undergraduate nursing program questioned whether a student's learning style is an indicator of aptitude in developing concept maps. The purpose of this research was to describe the relationship between nursing students' learning style preference and aptitude for concept maps. The sample included 120 undergraduate stude...