As distance education options continue to become available for nursing programs, market competition increases. Nursing faculty are challenged to design online courses based on best practices, and teaching online has implications for faculty role changes. This article presents a Model for Faculty Teaching Online based on faculty wisdom and expertise that evolved inductively from an exploratory s...

Examinations are used to evaluate individual student learning. Therefore, fair and consistent administration practices are essential. One issue associated with testing administration practices includes whether or not students should be allowed to ask questions during exams and how faculty should respond. Findings from this descriptive study indicate that faculty believe answering questions disr...

Publishing scholarly articles in traditional and newly-launched journals is a responsible task, requiring diligence from authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers. The current generation of scientific authors has ample opportunities for publicizing their research. However, they have to selectively target journals and publish in compliance with the established norms of publishing ethics. Over ...

We agree with Dupoux and Jacob (DJ) [1] that human moral capacities are, in ways yet to be understood, grounded in our biology. However, we disagree with DJ’s outright rejection of the linguistic analogy (LA). Fully cognizant that our present understanding of the moral faculty is no better, and perhaps is worse, than the state of affairs in linguistics circa 1950, we believe that it has opened ...

a survey was conducted to study the nursing faculty,s problems in clinical evaluation of nursing students in iran medical sciences-university, school of nursing and midwifery (tehran 1994) the especific purposes of this study were to identify the personal characteristics of the subjects. to identify the problems they faced in clinical evaluation in relation to certain personal characteristics o...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

growing number of clinical experiences place students in settings with electronic health records (EHRs). The nursing work world expects graduates to be proficient with informatics as part of nursing practice. This may not be easy because there is a substantive gap between the national health reform efforts and the attempt of nursing programs to engage students in expanding work practices. Altho...

background: although nursing faculties may believe that they possess a core of knowledge about ethical interactions with students, they may unwittingly risk crossing an ethical boundary in the learning environment. the ethical dimension in education exists because the instructor has authority to contribute to or impede the students’ acquisition of knowledge. therefore, this study aimed to deter...

1. Faculty of Nursing, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan 2. Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan 3. Faculty of Nursing, Irbid National University, Irbid, Jordan 4. Faculty of Nursing, Al-AlBayt University, Al-Mafraq, Jordan 5. Faculty of Nursing, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan 6. Faculty of Allied Medical Science, Jordan Universi...

1. Division of Child Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey 2. Division of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey 3. Dept. of Women Health and Diseases Nursing, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 4. Dept. of Pediatric Nursing, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Istanbul Univ...