Based on an Asian faculty's previous work, University of South Alabama College of Nursing conducted a project targeting the Asian population in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The Helene Fuld Health Trust, HSBC, Trustee funded the project to demonstrate effective models for involving nursing students and faculty members in community-based practice. This project provided health services and developed e...

Nursing students need foundation knowledge and skills to keep patients safe in continuously changing health care environments. A gap exists in our knowledge of the value students place on interprofessional patient safety education. The purpose of this exploratory, mixed methods study was to understand nursing students' attitudes about the value of an interprofessional patient safety course to t...

In today's technologically advanced healthcare world, nursing students should be active learners and think critically to provide safe patient care. A strategy that promotes students' active learning is case-based learning (CBL). The purpose of this study was to examine critical thinking (CT) abilities of nursing students from two different curricular approaches, CBL and didactic teaching. The d...

Aim The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of Norwegian students' practical experience of "culture sensitivity." Design Using focus-group interviews and individual written assignments, we draw on a Foucauldian-inspired approach to analyse nursing students' narratives about their clinical placement in Nicaragua. Method Seven third-year bachelor nursing students enrolled in a cli...

Introduction: Nursing is commonly accepted as a science and an art. Aim: To determine the degree to which nursing students perceived the artistic aspects of nursing. Methodology: A qualitative approach was used and the study conducted at the Health Sciences Faculty, and Nursing Department (n=54). The instrument of data collection consisted of two parts, the first one questions regarding the soc...

A liberal-arts-based undergraduate nursing program engaged in curriculum enhancement activities that led to the implementation of a disaster simulation for 81 multidisciplinary undergraduate students. A pretest/posttest design was used to determine the effectiveness of preparation for the simulation. Nursing students in three levels of the program received didactic preparation in disaster prepa...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore nursing students' understanding and enactment of resilience. BACKGROUND Stress is considered to be a major factor affecting the health, well-being and academic performance of nursing students. Resilience has been extensively researched as a process that allows individuals to successfully adapt to adversity and develop positive outcomes as a result. How...

PURPOSE This study explored the phenomenon of being a male in a predominately female-concentrated undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program. BACKGROUND Men remain a minority within the nursing profession. Nursing scholars have recommended that the profile of nursing needs to change to meet the diversity of the changing population, and the shortfall of the worldwide nursing shortage. However...

BACKGROUND How best to use poetry in nursing education remains uncertain. This study explored students' perceptions of incorporating a poem into a final examination to evaluate learning in an advanced physical assessment course. METHOD Qualitative design and method were used to collect and analyze data retrieved from private interviews with seven graduate nursing students. RESULTS The theme...

BACKGROUND Group mentoring has been endorsed as an effective method of supporting novice professionals across disciplines. In one university, faculty revised the undergraduate nursing curriculum to include a group mentoring course as a requirement of students during the four semesters they are enrolled in the nursing program. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore the lived exper...