393 The current system for doctoral education in nursing does not have the capacity to prepare the number of graduates necessary to replace retiring faculty, nor does it have a sufficient number of nurse researchers to generate knowledge for the discipline (Potempa, Redman, & Anderson, 2008). According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2007), a large percentage of senior nursing faculty me...

* Extract from the thesis "Relação dialógica entre profissionais de enfermagem e mães de crianças hospitalizadas em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica", Graduate Nursing Program at Federal University of Paraíba, 2007. 1 RN. MSc. in Nursing. Undergraduate Nursing Faculty at Faculdade de Enfermagem Nova Esperança. João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN, Ph.D. in Nursing. Undergra...

SELF-CONFIDENCE OF PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN IN POSTPARTUM PERIOD: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL Fahimeh Sehati Shafaie, Mojgan Mirghafourvand, Marzieh Bagherinia. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Midwifery Department, Tabriz University of Medical Sc...

The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of undergraduate nursing faculty about the work processes of professional nurses, particularly, nursing care and competency - from ways of learning, knowing, and doing, which were developed during their undergraduate nursing education. Focus groups among fifteen undergraduate faculty members were conducted to collect data for this qualitative...

* MSc, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran ** PhD, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran *** MSc, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shiraz, Iran Correspondence to: Farkhondeh Sharif, PhD, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Science, Shi...

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...

Nursing faculty who teach in clinical settings face complex situations requiring evidence-based educational and evaluative strategies, yet many have had limited preparation for these tasks. A convenience sample of 74 nursing faculty participated in a survey about clinical teaching in prelicensure nursing programs. Most faculty developed teaching skills through conferences (57%), orientation at ...

The emergency department nursing workforce: Local solutions for local issues Christine M. Duffield RN, PhD, MHP, BScN (Professor and Director) , Lisa Conlon RN, BSc, MClincNurs, DNurs(c) (Lecturer, 3rd Year Undergraduate Coordinator) , Michelle Kelly MN, BSc, RN, PhD (c) (Lecturer, Project Manager) , Christine Catling-Paull MSc, RM, RN (Research Assistant) , Helen Stasa BA (Hons) BA (Hons) (Res...

Faculty in Canadian undergraduate nursing programs have come to rely on preceptorship as the primary model for teaching and learning during the final clinical course. A focused ethnography was completed in order to examine undergraduate nursing students' experience of rural hospital preceptorship in western Canada. Data analysis revealed that students perceive nursing faculty involvement and su...

AIMS This study aimed to compare the findings of the quality of nursing doctoral education survey across seven countries and discuss the strategic directions for improving quality. BACKGROUND No comparative evaluation of global quality of nursing doctoral education has been reported to date despite the rapid increase in the number of nursing doctoral programmes. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-...