scholarly journals Gerontology course in the nursing undergraduate curricula

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1077-1084 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira AlSenany ◽  
Amer A. AlSaif
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Older People ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Gerontological Nursing ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members

Objective To explores nursing faculty members’ attitudes towards older people, their thoughts about gerontological nursing education. Method Five focus groups and a survey were used with nursing faculty members 132 at the three nursing schools to explore their attitudes towards the care of older people and the perceived status of gerontological nursing education. The survey was given to 132 faculty members, including 76 clinical instructors, 40 associate professors and 16 professors. The nursing faculty in general had a positive attitude toward older people (M=3.36, SD 0.25), and teachers’ attitudes were higher than those of their nursing students (M=3.18, SD0.29). Results This study results suggests that Saudi nursing curricula should include more extensive gerontology content and clinical experience with older people. Conclusion This is the first time in Saudi Arabia that research has listened to their voices and examined their commitments toward gerontology education.


scholarly journals Attitudes of nursing faculty members toward technology and e-learning in Lebanon

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rona Nsouli ◽  
Dimitrios Vlachopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members

Abstract Background Our transition to an “information society” means that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become integral to our lives. ICT has also become an essential aspect of medical institutions and healthcare settings. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses are required to use ICT in their daily work. In Lebanon, however, due to political factors, many universities have not introduced technology or any form of ICT in their curricula. Institutions of higher education do use technology in various ways, however, successful incorporation of ICT in education requires acceptance by instructors who are expected to use ICT in teaching practices. Although international findings reveal that ICT should be used in nursing education, some faculty members experience difficulty integrating it. Method A mixed methodological research approach was used to investigate the attitudes of nursing teaching staff toward the use of ICT in nursing education. Results Our findings revealed three categories of faculty with differing attitudes to the use of ICT in teaching and learning: pioneers, faculty members who have developed positive attitudes toward ICT usage; followers, faculty members with neutral attitudes; and resisters, faculty members with negative attitudes. Conclusions Identification of the nursing faculty members’ attitude toward ICT and the challenges faced by them contributes to the integration of ICT into nursing curricula and further development of educational practices.

scholarly journals “Nurses eat their young”: A novel bullying educational program for student nurses

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Lee Gillespie ◽  
Paula L. Grubb ◽  
Kathryn Brown ◽  
Maura C. Boesch ◽  
Deborah L. Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Pilot Implementation ◽  
Nursing Courses

Bullying is a known and ongoing problem against nurses.  Interventions are needed to prepare nursing students to prevent and mitigate the bullying they will experience in their nursing practice. The purpose of this article is to describe the development process and utility of one such intervention for use by nursing faculty with nursing students prior to their students’ entry into the profession. The educational program was critiqued by an advisory board and deemed to be relevant, clear, simple, and non-ambiguous indicating the program to have adequate content validity. The program then was pilot tested on five university campuses. Faculty members who implemented the educational program discussed (1) the program having value to faculty members and students, (2) challenges to continued program adoption, and (3) recommendations for program delivery. The proposed multicomponent, multiyear bullying educational program has the potential to positively influence nursing education and ultimately nursing practice. Findings from the pilot implementation of the program indicate the need to incorporate the program into additional nursing courses beginning during the sophomore year of the nursing curricula.

scholarly journals The effects of ego states on democratic attitudes: Nursing students’ opinions of nursing faculty members

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1602
Author(s):  
Ayla Keçeci ◽  
Serpil Çelik Durmuş
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Democratic Attitudes ◽  
Ego States ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members ◽  
Very High

<p>The aim of this descriptive study is to identify the ego states in the Transactional Analysis Approach for evaluating the interpersonal communication process, as well as the views of the nursing students regarding the democratic attitudes of their instructors. Consequently, the faculty members had democratic attitudes and there was a very high direct correlation between the Nurturing Parent ego state and democratic attitude.   </p>

An Integral Nursing Education: A Stress Management and Life Balance Course

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carey S. Clark, ◽  
Gabrielle Pelicci,
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Dysfunctional Family ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Need Support

Building upon a previously published article, this article examines how nursing faculty face the challenge of working with nursing students who are in stressful circumstances and who may have come from dysfunctional family backgrounds. It has been documented that nursing students need support in their personal transformative and selfcare processes in order to create sustainable caring-healing nursing practices. Hence, nursing faculty need experience in supporting students through these processes. As a proposed solution to addressing these ongoing issues in nursing curricula, outcomes from a class entitled, Stress Management and Life Balance, are examined and the challenges for implementing such an integral course within the nursing curricula are elucidated.

Recognizing bioethical issues and ethical qualification in nursing students and faculty in South Korea

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwisoon Choe ◽  
Eunju Song ◽  
Youngmi Kang
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Bioethical Issues ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members

The role of nursing faculty members in charge of ethics education is important. Although all nursing students receive the same bioethics education, their experiences differ, related to ethical qualification, which depends on the personal socialization process. This Korean study aimed to provide nursing faculty members with the basic data to help them develop as bioethics experts and provide nursing students with knowledge to improve their ethical decision-making abilities. We used a survey design to assess recognition of bioethical issues and ethical qualification in nursing students and faculty members. A total of 1225 undergraduate students and 140 faculty members participated in this study. The results revealed that nursing students and nursing faculty members generally understood the seriousness of various bioethical issues and both considered the most serious issue to concern abortion. Ethical behavior can be improved by education, and accordingly, nursing ethics should be a mandatory subject, rather than an elective one.

scholarly journals Trainings to train nursing teachers helping nursing students learn ethics: feedback of the participants

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Piryani Rano Mal ◽  
Piryani Suneel
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
Clinical Nursing ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members ◽  
Nursing Teachers

Introduction: Short-duration trainings for nursing faculty members in different contexts including ethics have been shown positive effect on faculty. The objective of the present study was to assess the feedback of the participant faculty members of “Trainings to train nursing teachers helping nursing students learn ethics.” Methodology: The training of four credits hours to train nursing teachers helping nursing students learn ethics was organized in October 22, 2019 at Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa Nepal. Fifteen nursing faculty members participated in the training. At the end of training feedback was taken from the participants using validated semi-structured questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was done using IBM SPSS version 21.Results: The rating of participants on training on scale 1-10 for usefulness (7.33±1.17), content (7.40±1.06), relevance (7.93± 0.70), facilitation (7.67± 0.98) and overall (7.93± 0.70) was notable. Their confidence level to conduct and facilitate “Think-Pair-Share” interactive session (3.68±0.69) and “Scenario-based Group-Work Discussion” (3.76±0.83) enhanced after training rated on Like rt scale 1-5(5= highly confident, 4= very confident, 3=confident, 2= to some extent confident 1= not confident). Participants rated session on “teaching clinical nursing ethics” an extremely important session (3.76±0.83) on Like rt scale 1-4 (4= extremely important, 3= moderately important, 2= slightly important, 1= not important). The participants mentioned that training environment was conducive and friendly, sessions were interactive and content was useful. They suggested to increase credit hours of training, conduct pre and post-test and include more scenario in curriculum of training. They committed for what was learnt will apply for teaching ethics to nursing students and in clinical nursing practice too. Conclusion: The rating of participants on the training was notable; the perception of participants was positive regarding training and training enhanced their confidence to teach ethics to students. This is obvious from their commitment.

scholarly journals Program level of nursing students and the achievement of intercultural sensitivity after service learning experiences

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Catherine S. Thomas ◽  
Leona Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Cultural Sensitivity ◽  
Intercultural Sensitivity ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
Maximal Gain

Nursing students require education and experience to develop cultural competence. Cultural sensitivity is a step on the journey to cultural competence. Nursing curricula vary regarding when and how to promote cultural sensitivity. Service learning (SL), is an experiential pedagogical method, which provides the opportunity to communicate and interact with persons from various cultures. A descriptive pilot study was undertaken in order to examine whether the program level affects the intercultural sensitivity of nursing students exposed to SL. The original Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) was used to assess intercultural sensitivity. In a paired samples t test, two statements in the ISS relating to Interaction Confidence (p = .006) and Respect for Cultural Differences (p = .002) demonstrated junior level students had increased intercultural sensitivity scores when compared with sophomore level students’ scores. This study may provide guidance to nursing faculty in determining at which level of students who will have maximal gain from SL.

scholarly journals Attitudes, Practices, and Knowledge About Human Lactation Among Nursing Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Linares ◽  
Angeline Do Nascimento Parente ◽  
Caroline Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Human Lactation ◽  
A Value ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
College Of Nursing ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members

Nurses are on the front line of the healthcare system and should, therefore, have the evidence-based knowledge to manage breastfeeding. The objective of this study was to assess the attitudes and knowledge about human lactation among a group of nursing students. An anonymous online survey was sent to all College of Nursing students at a local university in Kentucky. Nursing students participating in the survey favored breastfeeding over formula feeding for infants. Lack of knowledge and various misconceptions about breastfeeding were reported. Whether a nursing student has or has not completed a class about human lactation during the nursing program, and has had or not had children, significantly influences their attitudes and knowledge toward breastfeeding. Future studies should focus on identifying if nursing faculty members and nursing students recognize human lactation as a value and central knowledge for nurses.

Comparing Teaching Practices about Humor among Nursing Faculty: An International Collaborative Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen N Adamle ◽  
Lenny Chiang-Hanisko ◽  
Ruth Ludwick ◽  
Richard A Zeller ◽  
Robert Brown
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Experienced Nurses ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Nursing Faculty Members

Humor has been recognized by nurse researchers as a therapeutic intervention known to have positive psychological and physiological outcomes for patients. There is, however, no research that examines how nurses learn about humor. The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine nursing faculty members' teaching practices about humor education in the classroom and in clinical settings. Nursing faculty members from four nursing programs, two in the United States, one in Northern Ireland, and one in Taiwan, were surveyed about the inclusion of humor in the nursing curriculum. Findings revealed that substantially more humor education was included in clinical settings in the USA and Northern Ireland than in the classroom. In Taiwan, however, humor education was included more in the classroom than in clinical settings. Older and more experienced nurses with higher levels of education reported using less humor in teaching practices.

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