Finnish graduating nursing students’ research utilization competence

Nurse Competence of Graduating Nursing Students

4 Satu Kajander-Unkuri NURSE COMPETENCE OF GRADUATING NURSING STUDENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Painosalama Oy, Turku 2015

Nursing Students Critical Thinking and Research Utilization

A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Competence in Beginning and Graduating Nursing Students

The ethnic proportions of the population in the United States are rapidly changing, with the nation's minority population at approximately 101 million. This is also true for the West Texas region, where locally in a city with 183,000 residents, 43 different languages are spoken suggesting that cultural education needs to be included in nursing program curricula. Therefore, a study was conducted...

Finnish nurses' and nursing students' pharmacological skills.

UNLABELLED PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to investigate the pharmacological skills of Finnish nurses and graduating nursing students, to determine how pharmacological skills are related to background factors and to identify differences between nurses and students and, finally, to examine how the instrument used, the Medication Calculation Skills Test, works. BACKGRO...

Cultural competence revisited: nursing students with disabilities.

The demographic profile of students in nursing schools is changing in relation to many different cultural backgrounds. Despite the potential for students with disabilities to enrich the nursing profession, nurse educators may be perpetuating historical attitudes, values, and practices that exclude students with disabilities from gaining admission or identifying themselves as people with disabil...