Faculty members complain about the rise of uncivil behavior in their students, and students voice similar complaints about faculty. Using an interpretive qualitative method for research, this study examined student and faculty perceptions of incivility in nursing education, possible causes of incivility, and potential remedies. Narrative analysis yielded the following categories: in-class disru...

During theoretical and practical activities in clinical training areas, nursing teachers provide the bases needed for the development of future professionals. The goal is to understand the experience of nursing teachers with nursing students in clinical training areas. Therefore, a phenomenological qualitative method was chosen, and Martin Heidegger's philosophical framework was used to support...

In 2000, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing developed guidelines to help nurse educators incorporate gerontological nursing content into baccalaureate curricula. In 2001, the Hartford Foundation also provided grant monies to nursing programs to support gerontology curricular innovations and new clinical experiences...

For novice nurse practitioner faculty, the cultural dissonance between the clinical and faculty role is fostered by scant formal education in effective teaching pedagogies. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), a clinical doctorate in translational nursing science, prepares nurses to assume leadership in clinical practice, teaching and health policy. As DNPs assume positions in the academic are...

This is the second in a series of reports to share key learnings from my sabbatical. In spring and summer of 2005, I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing service delivery, in particular, nursing-led services; to explore outcome measurement as it relates to nursing services; to look at patient satisfaction and imp...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe the perceptions of nursing researchers, educators, and graduate students regarding the barriers to, and facilitators for, EBN in Medellín, Colombia. METHODOLOGY Using a qualitative descriptive design, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants associated with a large university faculty of nursing in Medellín, and one member of th...

The department was first established as the 4th Department of Clinical Medicine and Nursing in the School of Health Care and Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine University of Tokyo in 1953. The department was renamed to the department of Mental Hygiene according to the reorganization of the School of Health Care and Nursing into the School of Health Sciences in 1965. In 1992, the department unde...

The primary goal of this study is to explore and identify indicators of best practices in technology integration by the teacher education faculty at The University of Northern Colorado. This is a qualitative study involving seven teacher education faculty members who participated in the University’s federally funded grant, Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3). Interviews with f...

4 Satu Kajander-Unkuri NURSE COMPETENCE OF GRADUATING NURSING STUDENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Painosalama Oy, Turku 2015