scholarly journals Developing facilitation skills amongst undergraduate nursing students to promote dementia awareness with children in a higher education institution (innovative practice)

Dementia ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 147130121881178
Author(s):  
Caroline Gibson ◽  
Karen Rennie ◽  
Jan Dewing ◽  
Lesley McKinlay
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bohomol ◽  
Camilla Moreira Andrade

Objetivo: conhecer a prevalência, os medicamentos utilizados e os principais motivos da automedicação entre os discentes de um curso de enfermagem em uma instituição de ensino superior. Método: estudo transversal descritivo, de abordagem quantitativa, com amostra de 126 estudantes matriculados no curso de graduação em enfermagem de instituição pública. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de um questionário estruturado disponibilizado por aplicativo e foram analisados por estatística descritiva. Resultados: os estudantes tinham entre 18 e 25 anos de idade (85,7%), a maioria do sexo feminino (92,9%) e moravam com familiares (86,5%). Observou-se um alto índice de automedicação (99,2%), e a classe medicamentosa prevalente foi a dos analgésicos (28,7%) utilizados para alívio rápido da dor (88,1%) e levados à utilização pelo próprio conhecimento (73,8%). Conclusão: a alta prevalência de automedicação coloca em risco a saúde dos estudantes e reforça a necessidade de implementação de políticas públicas para a conscientização sobre o uso racional de medicamentos.


2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura ◽  
Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes ◽  
Lynda Law Wilson ◽  
Simone de Godoy ◽  
Irene Tamí-Maury ◽  
...  

OBJECTIVES: to identify the agreement of faculty affiliated with Brazilian higher education institutions about the global health competencies needed for undergraduate nursing students' education and whether these competencies were covered in the curriculum offered at the institution where they were teaching.METHOD: exploratory-descriptive study, involving 222 faculty members who answered the Brazilian version of the "Questionnaire on Core Competencies in Global Health", made available electronically on the website Survey Monkey.RESULTS: participants predominantly held a Ph.D. (75.8%), were women (91.9%) and were between 40 and 59 years of age (69.3%). The mean and standard deviation of all competencies questioned ranged between 3.04 (0.61) and 3.88 (0.32), with scores for each competency ranging from 1 "strongly disagree" to 4 "strongly agree". The results demonstrated the respondents' satisfactory level of agreement with the global health competencies.CONCLUSIONS: the study demonstrated a high mean agreement level of the nursing faculty from Brazilian HEI with the global health competencies in the questionnaire. The curricula of the HEI where they teach partially address some of these. The competencies in the domain "Globalization of health and health care" are the least addressed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moniki de Oliveira Barbosa Campos ◽  
Ana Karine da Costa Monteiro ◽  
Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes ◽  
Fernanda Valéria Silva Dantas Avelino ◽  
Jesusmar Ximenes Andrade ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate undergraduate nursing students’ knowledge about intestinal ostomies before and after an educational intervention via an online platform. Methods: before and after one-group type quasi-experimental research, carried out with 90 undergraduate nursing students from two higher education institutions in Piauí, from July to October 2014. For knowledge assessment, an instrument validated in Brazil was used. Nonparametric inferential statistics was used to compare the pre-test and post-test averages. Results: there was an increase in the average number of correct answers for undergraduate students after intervention in the online educational platform, from 23.67 (SD = 5.9) in the pre-test to 32.01 (SD = 2.72) in the post-test, and this difference was statistically significant (p = 0.000). Conclusions: intervention via online educational platform is considered applicable for teaching undergraduate nursing students on intestinal ostomies.


2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Maria Soares dos Santos ◽  
Magda Lúcia Félix de Oliveira

The main objective of this study was to measure the knowledge of undergraduate nursing students about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and drugs. The study was carried out in 2007 with a random sample of 289 undergraduate students at a State University in the Northwest of Paraná, Brazil. The students self-applied a questionnaire validated by experts. Questions were divided into three levels of complexity: low, average and high. The level of correct answers was higher in the questions of low complexity, diminishing as the questions' complexity increased. Thirteen percent of questions concerning risk factors and vulnerability to HIV infection among injection drug users (IDU) and biological material for diagnosis of AIDS was correctly answered by 90% of students. Students possessed knowledge concerning AIDS and drugs, however such knowledge was considered insufficient, showing lack of information and gaps in education with a dissociation of interdisciplinary and inter-curricular content.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousef Abusaksaksa ◽  
Hilda Vember ◽  
RR Marie Modeste

The aim of the study was to determine awareness and perception of trends in the occurrence of medication administration errors (MAEs) among nursing students. A descriptive quantitative design was employed on two consecutive days and a self-administrative questionnaire was used to collect data. The validity and reliability of this instrument were tested and established by a pilot study. Responses were collected from 291 nursing students at a higher education institution (HEI) in Western Cape, South Africa. Non-probability proportional quota sampling was used and the data was analysed with IBM SPSS® software. The data was presented in graphs, percentages, means and standard deviation, while inferential statistics was applied. The findings of the study revealed that 85.2% of the respondents were aware of MAE occurrence. There was no significant difference between the respondents’ awareness of MAE occurrence and their year of the study. The significant (p-value < 0.05) subscale for the causes of MAE occurrence was the physician communication subscale (p-value < 0.001). Moreover, the respondents perceived the top item to be using abbreviations instead of writing out the prescription orders completely (p-value < 0.001, mean = 4.85). The respondents disagreed that the pharmacy related subscale and its items were causes of MAE occurrence. In conclusion, the nursing students who participated in the study were aware of MAE occurrence during their practice time. The causes of these errors as indicated by the respondents are mentioned in the article. Therefore, the healthcare institutions as well as HEIs must focus on treating these causes in order to reduce MAE occurrence and enhance patient safety.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Michael Flores Oducado

Introduction: Research is one of the competencies expected of a beginning professional nurse. While research attitude has been widely explored among nursing students internationally, there is limited published research among nursing students in the Philippines. Objective: This study was conducted to find out the factors associated with attitude towards research among nursing students. Method: The design of this study cross-sectional with 79 undergraduate third-year nursing students in one higher education institution in the Philippines as participants. The Attitude Toward Research scale was the primary data collection tool. Differences in research attitude were tested using t-test and one-way ANOVA. Results: The results indicated that nursing students generally had positive attitude towards research. Graduates of public junior and senior high schools, those who had experience doing research in junior high school, and those who had presented in a research conference outside their school had significantly better research attitude. In addition, differences in research attitude were also noted based self-rated level of research knowledge, competence, and readiness. Conclusion: Type of high school, prior experience, knowledge, competence, and readiness in conducting research were significant factors influencing nursing students’ research attitude.  Nursing schools should continue to raise and cultivate the positive attitude of students towards scientific investigation.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Gelasius Panduleni Shatimwene ◽  
Daniel Opotamutale Ashipala ◽  
Esther Kamenye

Clinical Training is intended to prepare nursing students for future nursing practice in both private and public facilities. As do many nursing training institutions globally, this Higher Education Institution (HEI) uses the two-week block system as a teaching system. However, despite the two-week block system, it would appear that, due to the increased number of nursing students, the aligning of practical exposure with theoretical instruction is becoming difficult in balancing theory and practice for both student and academics. Such alignment requires institutions of higher learning to establish which teaching systems are likely to promote the correlation between theory and practice. The experiences of students may be used to identify positive learning environment for students. This study aimed to explore and understand the personal experiences of student nurses studying at Higher Education Institution HEI in Namibia in relation to the use of the two-week block system. The objectives of the study included exploring and describing the experiences of student nurses regarding the two-week block system at the HEI with a view to ascertaining the negative impact, if any, of such a teaching system on their studies. A study employed a qualitative approach which comprised an explorative and descriptive research design, using purposive sampling. The research population in the study consisted of first to fourth year, undergraduate nursing students who were studying at a satellite campus of a HEI in Namibia. The requisite data was collected from four focus group discussions which were each conducted with six to seven participants. The transcribed interviews and narratives from the research notes were then organised into main themes and sub-themes. Three main themes and nine sub-themes were identified. The findings of the study indicated that two-week block system was associated with challenges as was evidenced by the following themes that had emerged from the study, namely, different experiences of the two-week block system, various effects of the two-week block system and recommendations to School of Nursing (SoN).The study recommended that the HEI extend the two-week block system to a one-month block system in order to give the students sufficient time in which to put the theory they have learnt into practice.


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