‘Work in progress’: nurse educators' views on preparing pre-registration nursing students in Wales for practice in multi-ethnic environments

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 490-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Merrell ◽  
Gillian Olumide ◽  
Ashrafunnesa Khanom
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Theory Practice Gap

Nurses need to be adequately prepared to practise competently in increasingly ethnically diverse communities. This study explored nurse educators' views regarding the extent and nature of pre-registration nursing education intended to prepare students for multi-ethnic practice in Wales. A qualitative approach was taken with a purposive sample of programme directors ( n = 6), branch leaders and lecturers ( n = 25) and practice mentors ( n = 35). Data were collected through focus groups, interviews, questionnaire and documentary review. Qualitative data were analysed using thematic analysis and three themes were identified: curriculum design and content, a theory–practice gap and personnel and material resources. Findings indicated that knowledge of the most effective way to prepare pre-registration nursing students for practice in multi-ethnic communities is ‘work in progress’ in Wales. Our findings raise questions about the extent to which the curriculum prepares students to engage with the Welsh social justice agenda. Improved clarity regarding what constitutes an adequate curriculum and improved preparation of nurse educators and mentors to competently and confidently prepare students for working within ethnically diverse communities is required.

Concept-based curriculum: design and implementation strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen V. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Novice Nurses

AbstractObjectivesNovice nurses are struggling to exercise the critical thinking skill set needed to make competent clinical decisions in today’s complex health care environment. This poses immense threats to the health and safety of patients. To address this alarming concern, many prominent organizations have called for a widespread overhaul of nursing curricula.MethodsA consistent theme among the recommendations for revising nursing curricula is the utilization of innovative curricula designs that focus on enhancing the critical thinking ability of nursing students, such as a concept-based curriculum.ResultsPlanning and implementing a curriculum revision is an overwhelming undertaking.ConclusionsProviding nurse educators with a guide on how to transition to a concept-based curriculum may help to facilitate a course revision.

scholarly journals Concept-mapping as a teaching method to facilitate critical thinking in nursing education: A review of the literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Chabeli
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Reading Material

Nursing students are exposed to a vast amount of information and reading material that is very specific, technical, and new to the students. Unless nurse educators provide a learning environment that promotes understanding through interaction, students might only commit unassimilated information to their short-term memory through rote learning, and no meaningful learning will occur. Nursing students must be able to link learned facts, concepts and principles with new knowledge in order to make sound rational decisions in practice (All & Havens 1997:1210, 1213). The aim of this paper is to describe the utilisation of concept-mapping as a teaching method to facilitate critical thinking by students in nursing education. The description of the utilisation of concept-mapping is done from the theoretical framework of concept-mapping and critical thinking to provide the epistemological basis for concept-mapping (Facione 1990:6, 13). Based on the exploration and description of the theoretical frameworks, four steps to facilitate critical thinking were formulated through concept-mapping on the basis of the educational process: the identification, interactive constructing process, formulation and evaluation steps. It is concluded that the utilisation of these steps will assist nurse educators to implement conceptmapping as a teaching method to facilitate critical thinking by student nurses in nursing education. Recommendations are made.Opsomming Verpleegkundestudente word blootgestel aan ’n geweldige hoeveelheid inligting en leesmateriaal wat baie spesifiek, tegnies en nuut is vir die studente. Tensy verpleegkundeopvoeders ’n leeromgewing kan voorsien wat deur interaksie die bevordering van begrip bewerkstellig, kan studente inligting deur papegaaiwerk in hul korttermyngeheue stoor, eerder as om dit te assimileer – geen betekenisvolle leer sal dus plaasvind nie. Verpleegkundestudente moet die vermoë hê om die verband tussen aangeleerde feite, konsepte en beginsels en nuwe kennis te lê sodat hulle in die praktyk rasionale besluite kan maak (All & Havens 1997:1210, 1213). Hierdie artikel het ten doel om die aanwending van konsepkartering as 'n onderrigstrategie te beskryf, ten einde die kritiese denke van leerders in die verpleegkunde te fasiliteer. Die beskrywing van die aanwending van konsepkartering word vanuit die teoretiese raamwerke van konsepkartering en kritiese denke gedoen om die epistemologiese grondslag vir konsepkartering te voorsien (Facione 1990:6, 13). Gegrond op die verkenning en beskrywing van die teoretiese raamwerke, word vier fases vir die fasilitering van kritiese denke geformuleer deur middel van konsepkartering. Hierdie verkenning en beskrywing is gebaseer op die onderwysproses: die identifiseringsfase, die interaktiewe konstrueringsproses, die formuleringsfase en evalueringsfase. Die gevolgtrekking word gemaak dat die aanwending van hierdie fases verpleegopvoeders behulpsaam sal wees in die implementering van konsepkartering as 'n onderrigmetode om kritiese denke by leerling verpleërs te fasiliteer in verpleegkunde-onderwys. Aanbevelings word gemaak.

Integrating YouTube into the Nursing Curriculum

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leighsa Sharoff
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Nursing Curriculum ◽  
Nursing Courses ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Nurse educators need to be innovative, stimulating, and engaging as they teach future nursing professionals. The use of YouTube in nursing education classes provides an easy, innovative, and user-friendly way to engage today’s nursing students. YouTube presentations can be easily adapted into nursing courses at any level, be it a fundamentals course for undergraduate students or a theoretical foundations course for graduate students. In this article I will provide information to help educators effectively integrate YouTube into their course offerings. I will start by reviewing the phenomenon of social networking. Next I will discuss challenges and strategies related to YouTube learning experiences, after which I will share some of the legal considerations in using YouTube. I will conclude by describing how to engage students via YouTube and current research related to YouTube.

scholarly journals Encompassing multiple moral paradigms: A challenge for nursing educators

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Shirin Caldwell ◽  
Hongyan Lu ◽  
Thomas Harding
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
Nursing Educators

Providing ethically competent care requires nurses to reflect not only on nursing ethics, but also on their own ethical traditions. New challenges for nurse educators over the last decade have been the increasing globalization of the nursing workforce and the internationalization of nursing education. In New Zealand, there has been a large increase in numbers of Chinese students, both international and immigrant, already acculturated with ethical and cultural values derived from Chinese Confucian moral traditions. Recently, several incidents involving Chinese nursing students in morally conflicting situations have led to one nursing faculty reflecting upon how moral philosophy is taught to non-European students and the support given to Chinese students in integrating the taught curriculum into real-life clinical practice settings. This article uses a case study involving a Chinese student to reflect on the challenges for both faculty members and students when encountering situations that present ethical dilemmas.

scholarly journals Predicted Influences of Artificial Intelligence on Nursing Education: Scoping Review

JMIR Nursing ◽  
10.2196/23933 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. e23933
Author(s):  
Christine Buchanan ◽  
M Lyndsay Howitt ◽  
Rita Wilson ◽  
Richard G Booth ◽  
Tracie Risling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Health Technologies

Background It is predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will transform nursing across all domains of nursing practice, including administration, clinical care, education, policy, and research. Increasingly, researchers are exploring the potential influences of AI health technologies (AIHTs) on nursing in general and on nursing education more specifically. However, little emphasis has been placed on synthesizing this body of literature. Objective A scoping review was conducted to summarize the current and predicted influences of AIHTs on nursing education over the next 10 years and beyond. Methods This scoping review followed a previously published protocol from April 2020. Using an established scoping review methodology, the databases of MEDLINE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central, Education Resources Information Centre, Scopus, Web of Science, and Proquest were searched. In addition to the use of these electronic databases, a targeted website search was performed to access relevant grey literature. Abstracts and full-text studies were independently screened by two reviewers using prespecified inclusion and exclusion criteria. Included literature focused on nursing education and digital health technologies that incorporate AI. Data were charted using a structured form and narratively summarized into categories. Results A total of 27 articles were identified (20 expository papers, six studies with quantitative or prototyping methods, and one qualitative study). The population included nurses, nurse educators, and nursing students at the entry-to-practice, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. A variety of AIHTs were discussed, including virtual avatar apps, smart homes, predictive analytics, virtual or augmented reality, and robots. The two key categories derived from the literature were (1) influences of AI on nursing education in academic institutions and (2) influences of AI on nursing education in clinical practice. Conclusions Curricular reform is urgently needed within nursing education programs in academic institutions and clinical practice settings to prepare nurses and nursing students to practice safely and efficiently in the age of AI. Additionally, nurse educators need to adopt new and evolving pedagogies that incorporate AI to better support students at all levels of education. Finally, nursing students and practicing nurses must be equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills to effectively assess AIHTs and safely integrate those deemed appropriate to support person-centered compassionate nursing care in practice settings. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) RR2-10.2196/17490

Comparison of nurse educators’ and nursing students’ descriptions of teaching codes of ethics

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia Numminen ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Arie van der Arend ◽  
Jouko Katajisto
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study analysed teaching of nurses’ codes of ethics in basic nursing education in Finland. A total of 183 educators and 214 students responded to a structured questionnaire. The data was analysed by SPSS. Teaching of nurses’ codes was rather extensive. The nurse-patient relationship was highlighted. Educators assessed their teaching statistically significantly more extensive than what students’ perceptions were. The use of teaching and evaluation methods was conventional, but differences between the groups concerning the use of these methods were statistically significant. Students’ knowledge of and their ability to apply the codes was mediocre. Most educators and students assessed educators’ knowledge of the codes as adequate for teaching. These educators also taught the codes more extensively and these students perceived the teaching as more extensive. Otherwise educators’ and students’ socio-demographic variables had little association with the teaching. Research should focus on the organization and effectiveness of ethics education, and on educators’ competence.

Rooting Out White Supremacy and Implementing Antiracism in Nursing Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Amie M. Koch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Negative Health Outcomes ◽  
Care Nursing

Discussing racism is challenging for nurse educators and nursing students, because White privilege and racial inequities are deeply embedded and normalized in our societal structures. Avoiding the topic of racism in nursing education renders White supremacy invisible and serves to perpetuate racial discrimination and disparities in health care. Nursing education has the potential to train both faculty and students to recognize and dismantle oppressive attitudes, structures, and practices that have led to negative health outcomes for patients. Equipping nurse educators with the tools to understand and address White supremacy as well as to educate themselves and their students about antiracist language, self-care, and patient care is an important step toward promoting health and creating an antiracist society.

Finding Meaning Through Kristen Swanson’s Caring Behaviors: A Cornerstone of Healing for Nursing Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. McKelvey
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Caring Behaviors ◽  
Teaching Pedagogy ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
Healing Relationships ◽  
Range Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Swanson’s (1991) middle range theory of caring has traditionally been used to define the care of patients and family members. Swanson’s caring theory outlines five caring processes: knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief (p. 163). Nurse educators can utilize these caring processes to teach nursing students by cultivating meaningful, healing relationships. This article presents an example of a nursing faculty member’s application of this theory to her teaching pedagogy. This account serves to guide therapeutic teaching as well as to encourage further scholarly work examining the relationship between Swanson’s caring theory and nursing education.

Educating Aboriginal Nursing Students: Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Report

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Lane ◽  
Kristin Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nurse Educators ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Effective Health Care

AbstractA 2015 Canadian report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued two calls for action that specifically challenge nursing education programs: a call to incorporate indigenous knowledge and learning, and a call to reduce health disparities between aboriginals and non-aboriginals. These calls to action raise questions for nurse educators regarding how best to recruit, retain, and educate aboriginal nursing students. A literature review was conducted to examine issues faced by aboriginal students in nursing programs, as well as cultural competence with nurse educators working with aboriginal students. While there is some literature that addresses the need for aboriginal students to successfully complete nursing programs and thus be able to provide effective health care to aboriginal people, the emphasis is largely upon strategies. Although there are some exceptions, these have largely been ineffective. We argue the need to think about thinking in order to improve the effectiveness of these strategies within Canadian programs, as well as nursing programs abroad.

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