Diabetes is a significant health care issue that requires healthcare providers to be both knowledgeable about the disease and have positive attitudes toward diabetes self-care issues. Nursing students receive a tremendous amount of information about diabetes in their undergraduate education but it is often presented without an opportunity for application. The purpose of this project was to eval...

The necessity to help baccalaureate nursing students transition to clinical practice in a health care environment governed by change has compelled nurse educators to investigate alternative clinical instruction models that nurture academic-practice partnerships and facilitate student clinical learning. This article describes an academic-practice partnership in a community hospital using the Cli...

The purpose of this study was to compare graduating baccalaureate students in a problem-based curriculum with those in a conventional nursing program with regard to perceived preparation for clinical practice, clinical functioning, knowledge and satisfaction with their education. Prior to graduation, students completed a self-report questionnaire that consisted of five sections and took about 4...

Background Professional competence is necessary to enhance patients’ quality of care and safety, however not much known about nursing students’ perceptions their professional at the point graduation, particularly in Australian context. Aim To validate Nurse Competence (NPC) Scale context explore graduating own suggestions improve learning experience. Method A cross-sectional survey incorporatin...

To meet the predicted deficit of more than 1 million nurses by 2020, traditional nursing recruitment must target previously un-recruited populations, as well as a culturally diversified workforce to include variations in age, ethnicity, gender, life style, national origin, and sexual orientations. As diversity increases, differences must be bridged to acculturate new nurses to recognize and ide...

Promoting clinical reasoning in undergraduate nursing students through application of the Outcome Present State Test (OPT) Model of Clinical Reasoning, is a challenge that can be successfully managed through effective teaching-learning strategies. Empirical evidence to support teaching strategies that foster both cognitive and metacognitive skill acquisition is limited. The purpose of this rese...