Pediatric medical and nursing education currently lacks the environmental health content necessary to appropriately prepare pediatric health care professionals to prevent, recognize, manage, and treat environmental-exposure-related disease. Leading health institutions have recognized the need for improvements in health professionals' environmental health education. Parents are seeking answers a...

This article reflects on the development and implementation of a consumer engagement in teaching initiative by the authors. The authors highlight the challenges of engaging undergraduate nursing students on the psychosocial aspects of living with cancer and other chronic illnesses when students have very limited personal and professional experiences to draw on. The authors discuss how they have...

BACKGROUND Australian national mental health strategy emphasises inclusion of people diagnosed with mental illness in all areas of mental health care, policy development and education of health professionals. However, the way this inclusion has translated to Australian universities is relatively unexplored. OBJECTIVES Explore views of nurse academics regarding service user involvement in nurs...

conclusions perceptions of nursing were significantly different from those of the ideal career in most of the attributes. therefore, it is recommended that nurses’ income, workplace safety, and sense of being appreciated and respected by all authorities should be improved. background identification of the attributes of nursing and the ideal career, and their similarities and differences, as per...

This article aimed to analyze the Women's Health Education in the Nursing courses in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, characterizing faculty members and the pedagogical processes implemented. A questionnaire was carried out with 17 professors responsible for the teaching. It was possible to observe good qualification of the faculty members, in its majority with teaching experience superior to five years....

This study reviewed the literature on the health education subject and the impact on education in undergraduate nursing. Descriptors were selected in LILACS, PERIENF and BDENF bases. References were classified into four categories: education, care, scientific production and stricto sensu academic production. The results showed: the importance of educational issues in the nursing social practice...

Nursing programs have done a commendable job keeping pace with the rapid advances in disease management. Yet, spirituality has received far less attention in nursing curricula (Keefe, 2005) and nursing students often do not have a strong foundation in this area. The purpose of this project was to integrate spirituality into the undergraduate nursing curricula and measure student outcomes relate...

BACKGROUND Incivility in nursing education can adversely affect the academic environment, the learning outcomes, and safety. Nursing faculty (NF) and nursing students (NS) contribute to the academic incivility. Little is known about the extent of NF academic incivility in the Middle East region. This study aimed at exploring the perceptions and extent of NF academic incivility in an undergradua...

BACKGROUND The number of individuals with dementia is increasing substantially due to South Korea's rapidly aging society. Undergraduate nursing students need to have adequate knowledge about dementia to deliver appropriate nursing services. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge about dementia among undergraduate nursing students. METHODS A total of 148 students ranging from f...