Role modeling excellence in clinical nursing practice is the focus of this paper. The phenomenological research study reported involved a group of 8 nurses identified by their colleagues as exemplary. The major theme revealed in this study was that these exemplary nurses were also excellent role models in the clinical setting. This paper details approaches used by these nurses that made them ex...

This paper presents a large scale, quantitative investigation of the impact of demographic differences on the student experience of using an online learning environment (OLE). Female respondents generally gave higher ratings than males, and gave significantly higher ratings in both importance and satisfaction to a group of OLE elements related to online interaction and community. Postgraduate r...

During the last decades gender and diversity have become a business case in many respects. Therefore, organisations have to learn not only to consider gender and diversity issues as hindrances or problems but as opportunities to develop new competences. Organisational learning in this sense means to become aware of gender and diversity issues by questioning the daily “doing gender” and “doing d...

introduction: programs must demonstrate that their residents are taught and assessed in professionalism. most programs struggle with finding viable ways to teach and assess this critical competency. uthscsa family and community medicine residency developed an innovative option for interactive learning and assessment of residents in this competency which would be transferrable to other programs ...

background and purpose: the medical educational environment is increasingly becoming the focus of research globally. it is commonly understood that educational environments are an important factor for efficient learning. the present study was done with the aim to evaluation of clinical phase students' perception of learning environment of our teaching hospital and comparing it with the previous...