PURPOSE Describe the development and validation of the Nursing Assessment Form (NAF), within a clinical nursing information system, to support nurses in the identification of nursing diagnoses. METHODS Content validity and consensus on NAF contents were established using a panel of experts in nursing diagnosis and Delphi rounds. FINDINGS Expert consensus was achieved to validate an instrume...

Older adults constitute the largest group of health care users across all settings, and virtually all nurses care for older adults in their subspecialties. In addition to having acute and episodic illnesses, many older adults require close nursing assessment and management related to one or more chronic illnesses. Cardiovascular, obstructive pulmonary, liver, and renal disease, as well as cance...

BACKGROUND A curriculum evaluation gap was addressed by exploring the final year of the Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education (OCNE) curriculum through student perception of competency and benchmark proficiency. METHOD Researchers used a mixed-methods design to explore RN to baccalaureate (RNBS) student self-assessment data on perceived benchmark proficiency. Students' written statements wer...

CONTEXT Research on organ donation education is limited by its reliance on convenience samples (ie, small sample sizes and local schools) and its failure to assess methods of instruction on the topic. OBJECTIVE To describe medical and nursing students' training in organ donation by examining curriculum content and methods of instruction by using a national sample of medical schools and a stat...

AIM This paper reports a study to develop further the existing assessment form and to capture new aspects of assessment for the nursing profession of the future for inclusion in the form. BACKGROUND Since nursing education became part of the higher education system, the assessment of clinical periods of the programme has become more complicated and requirements are more demanding. Changes in ...

Nursing educators are challenged to discover new ways to prepare nurses for practice. Graduates must be able to accurately plan, monitor and evaluate their own beliefs, knowledge, skills and behaviors. This paper explores the role of nurse educators in student’s self-assessment. It concludes with discovery of a theory of teaching that embraces formative assessment as an important teaching metho...

GOAL The aim of the course "interprofessional communication and nursing" is to reflect medical students' experiences from the nursing internship. The content of the course focuses on barriers and support of interprofessional communication as a foundation for teamwork between nursing professionals and physicians. The nursing internship is for most medical students the first contact with nursing ...