results students (n = 157; 97.5%) opined that humor if incorporated appropriately in classroom teaching is a good thing and also helps in better retention of the topic being taught (n = 141; 75.15%). majority of students (n = 158; 98.12%) responded that use of humor in classroom teaching facilitates a good teacher-student relationship. majority of students (n = 146; 90.67%) also felt that havin...

Perspectives on the application of technology to enhance learning in an undergraduate nursing degree programme Original Citation Perspectives on the application of technology to enhance learning in an undergraduate nursing degree programme. Nurse Education Today. Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given t...

BACKGROUND The clinical education of undergraduate nursing students relies heavily on the use of staff nurses who assume the preceptor role. The best and most efficient utilization of preceptors is unknown. METHOD This study reviewed Board of Nursing rules and regulations for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories for their published requirements regarding preceptor...

The Curriculum Guidelines of the Undergraduate Nursing are references to the strengthening of the changes in training of professionals critics and committed to health. Seeking to identify these changes, this study aimed to analyze the progress and challenges of a decade of these Guidelines. This is a documentary research, in which it was analyzed the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Educ...

The creation of a curriculum blueprint appropriate to the development of a professional nurse who is practice-ready for the current and future context of health service delivery must take account of the extant context as well as an unpredictable and sometimes ambiguous future. The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideals, practices, and sacred cows within t...

ability to have good interpersonal relationship without social anxiety is the inseparable component of an effective nursing care process. the purpose of this study was to determine relationship between social anxiety and some demographic characteristics in undergraduate nursing students. this descriptive analytic study includes 400 students from tehran university of medical sciences who were re...

BACKGROUND Social media have become a popular communication system that has transformed communication from the traditional to the Web-based model. Because social media use has no limitations to place and time, it is now used extensively at clinical facilities. Social media useis becoming a popular activity amongst students at Nursing Education Institutions (NEI) in South Africa. However, lack o...

: Violence against women is a public health concern that require urgent resolution. Undergraduate nursing education crucial for shaping attitudes and facilitating the development of comprehensive understanding about domestic violence.

Medical education must adapt to change if it is to remain relevant to the needs of doctors, patients and society. Ideally, it should anticipate and lead change. Undergraduate education remains rooted in urban medical schools where the focus is on acute disease, while most graduates spend their working lives in the community, dealing mainly with chronic health problems. Medical graduates need to...

BACKGROUND Analyzing students' performance and self-criticism of their roles in promoting health literacy can inform nursing education in a social environment that expects new graduates to be health promoters. OBJECTIVES The pilot study reported here aimed to a) analyze students' understanding of and sensitivity to issues of health literacy, (b) identify students' perceptions of structural, o...