Title: Evaluating the integrating of life and social sciences teaching to first-year nursing students. Objectives: To evaluate an integrated teaching and learning approach to first-year nursing students, combining the life, social sciences and public health with a more integrated and clinical focused approach to teaching delivery Background: Historically within the School of Nursing and Midwife...

  This investigation was undertaken to evaluate the " effect of the student nurses" personal pain experience on assessment of pain intensity and selection of appropriate number of pain interventions. Participants in this research were 150 female student nurses who were studying in Razie Nursing and Midwifery college of Kerman university of medical sciences and health services. Data collection ...

After reading this chapter you will be able to: • recognise the importance of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery • differentiate major philosophical approaches in the conduct of research and their use in nursing and midwifery services • understand developments in nursing and midwifery research in the context of society, politics and history • understand the links betw...

What are the strengths and limitations of existing Decision-Making Theories as a basis for guiding best practice clinical decision-making within a framework of midwifery philosophy? Each theory is compared in relation with how well they provide a teachable framework for midwifery clinical reasoning that is consistent with midwifery philosophy. Hypothetico-Deductive Theory, from which medical cl...

Background: One way of developing nursing education is using of new teaching methods. One of this student based method that has been introduced recently is case-based teaching method. So the aim of this study was to assess the opinion of nursing student about case-based Teaching method and comparison with lecture in Zanjan Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in 2011.   Methods: This is a quasiexpe...

This paper analyses the history of the subordination of midwifery to medicine and nursing. With the important exception of Evan Willis' work on medical dominance and Annette Summers' work on the takeover of midwifery by nursing, other histories of Australian midwifery have taken a neutral approach to issue of power and control. The aim of analysing this period is to identify the strategies of p...

BACKGROUND Educational Environment (EE) is considered as a key component of educational curriculum. AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the EE of Nursing and Midwifery School of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) by using Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM). METHODS This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2013. Totally, 500 nursing or midwifery...