Many English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) nursing students struggle in nursing school for a multitude of reasons. The purpose of this critical review of the literature is to identify barriers and discover bridges to ESL nursing student success. Twenty-five articles were identified for the review. Language barriers were identified as the single most significant obstacle facing the ESL nursing stud...

Victoria Hird is a Nurse Educator at the Department of Nursing Inservice Education, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney. The Australian Nurse Registering Authorities developed the Australian Nursing Competencies that describe the attributes and performance required by newly qualified Registered and Enrolled Nurses in the clinical setting. A description of what constitutes nursing competence, the impo...

In the midst of a nursing faculty shortage, recruitment and retention of new faculty are of utmost importance if the country is to educate and graduate a sufficient number of nurses to fill the health care demands. The pressure of horizontal hostility combined with lack of support, guidance, and knowledge about the educational system makes the novice nurse faculty members vulnerable to burnout ...

Aims: Patient education is one of the most fundamental roles of the nurses. The nurse commitment is due to the nurse understanding of their education role, having preparation of patient education as an educator, and environmental factors. This study assesses the nursing education’s facing challenges in patient education field. Materials and Methods: This is a review article that is based on...

This feature provides a platform for oncology nurses to illustrate the many ways that leadership may be realized and professional practice may transform cancer care. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to, overviews of projects, accounts of the application of leadership principles or theories to practice, and interviews with nurse leaders. Descriptions of activities, projects, or ...

Increasing globalization and technological development raise questions about the work of university teachers in teaching-learning process face challenges imposed by society. The critical role teacher specific competencies different ways being, knowing, doing living together is part fundamental strategy to promote sustainable change. objective analyze scientific evidence on nursing training conv...

BACKGROUND Although interventions combining patient education and postdischarge management have demonstrated benefits in patients with chronic heart failure, the benefit attributable to patient education alone is not known. We hypothesized that a patient discharge education program would improve clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted a rando...