BACKGROUND Experienced clinicians who choose to become academic nurse educators bring to their new faculty role strong clinical skills and a desire to influence the next generation of nurses. However, many find themselves unprepared for the challenges they encounter. Intentional mentoring is needed to ease their transition from clinician to nurse educator. METHOD An integrative literature rev...

Katrina holds the position of Deputy Director of Nursing at Lyndoch Warrnambool Inc., which is the largest provider of residential services in the South-West region of Victoria. In addition to the organizations vast community services, Lyndoch provides accommodation for 85 high care residents and 112 people with low care needs. With over twenty years experience as a nurse Katrina has been fortu...

Objective: Faculty who are aware of culturally responsive practices are better positioned to implement teaching-learning strategies that meet the educational needs of culturally diverse learners. This study investigated the extent to which faculty used practices that promoted the academic success of African American and Hispanic minority nursing students and their preparedness in teaching these...

Utilising Rolfe's [Rolfe, G., 1998. Expanding Nursing Knowledge: Understanding and Researching Your Own Practice. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford] reflexive action research, one novice nurse educator explored current teaching practice. The data were collected from a reflective journal and colleague feedback. Through this data collection and applying Rolfe's (1998) understanding-action-evaluation ...

BACKGROUND Recent data reported by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing suggest that nursing education is experiencing a continued increase in applicants. However, because of a faculty shortage, many qualified students are denied enrollment. Strategies that would encourage individuals to consider a career in nursing education would somewhat alleviate applicant restrictions. METHODS...

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The nursing students' main quest is for self actualization by attributing meaning to life through caring. To assist student nurses in this quest, the nurse educator needs to plan educational interventions according to an anthropological model that posits care and caring as innate human attributes. Further, the structural essence of what professional nursing caring entails should also be posited...

The population of older adults is increasing worldwide. Old age is often associated with a continuous decline in memory and along with other forms of cognitive decline can impede the self-management abilities necessary for everyday functioning. Recent research suggests that adapting a brain-healthy lifestyle may reduce age-related cognitive decline and, in some instances, improve memory and thi...

An especially dynamic area of discussion within nursing ethics is the philosophy of caring. The work on moral development by Harvard educator Carol Gilligan in her book, In a Different Voice, is pivotal in this discussion (see IV B, Cooper 1989). Jean Watson, a nurse at the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring, also has written extensively on the philosophy of caring. She states that ...

Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) is by their title clinicians in focus, and the literature emphasises this. However the CNS has many roles, the clinical, educator and researcher roles are frequently articulated but the CNS operates in many other roles also. These include the less articulated roles such as leadership, manager, consultant and change agent/innovator. These roles require functions ...