Clinical nursing teaching is a key stage to improve student's ability to associate theory and practice. However, the current educational methods in China are still based on imparting knowledge, and neglect the development of student's ability to study initiative (1). In order to improve the clinical teaching quality, our department implemented a new method called " 512 teaching mode " , based o...

Background: This study investigates the effects of a collaborative clinical practicum for adult health nursing on clinical practice ability and teaching effectiveness among nursing students, using a non-equivalent control group pre-test-post-test design. Methods: Participants were 52 junior nursing students taking a two-credit clinical practicum course for adult health nursing at a nursing coll...

To upgrade nursing instruction capacity in Cambodia, two bridging programmes were opened for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing simultaneously in-country and out-of-country (Thailand). A descriptive qualitative study was conducted to assess effectiveness of both programmes jointly and to explore needs concerning the further development of nursing education. This study included interviews with 3...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of traditional learning and cooperative learning methods on nursing students' communication skill with patients. This was an experimental study in which 34 nursing students in their 2nd semester of program participated. They were divided randomly into two groups, a control group who were taught their medical/surgical nursing course by traditio...

BACKGROUND The main objective of this study was to determine the perceptions of Iranian nurse educators and students regarding the evaluation of teaching effectiveness in university-based programs. METHODS An exploratory descriptive design was employed. 143 nurse educators in nursing faculties from the three universities in Tehran, 40 undergraduate, and 30 graduate students from Tehran Univer...

Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable, premature death in the UK. Very Brief Advice (VBA) from Health Care Professionals (HCP) can trigger quit attempts, and behavioural support from trained practitioners can assist with these quit attempts. The purpose of the current study was to assess the self-reported content of smoking cessation education, and extent of training, in pre-registra...

Change in nursing education in South Africa has been characterised by the predominance of the use of power-coercive strategies to effect change. Changes in nursing curricula are legislated through the South African Nursing Council. The Comprehensive Basic Nursing Programme (CBNP) became mandatory for all institutions offering basic professional nurse preparation education programmes in this cou...

Background: One way of developing nursing education is using of new teaching methods. One of this student based method that has been introduced recently is case-based teaching method. So the aim of this study was to assess the opinion of nursing student about case-based Teaching method and comparison with lecture in Zanjan Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in 2011.   Methods: This is a quasiexpe...