background: with regard to the importance of life skills, the present study deals with the effect of life skills training on general health of the students . materials and methods: this was a one-group, pre-test, post-test, quasi-experimental research. forty students were selected through purposive sampling method. the data collection tool was goldberg general health questionnaire. results: pai...

a bstract background: health professionals and their medical equipment have long been known to act as vectors of infectious diseases.the aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of pens used by nursing students working in clinics in relation to transmission of bacteria. materials and methods: the study was conducted in sakarya university school of health sciences in march 2012, with th...

high levels of mental health during studying in university, makes students able to deal effectively with numerous stressors they experience. our aim of this study was to examine and compare social anxiety among first to fourth year student nurses of ministry of health affiliated universities of medical sciences located in tehran, iran in 2010. in this descriptive analytic study, 400 students fr...

conclusions the present study showed that life skills training program did not affect self-efficacy of nursing students. perhaps, the methods used in education were influencing and then, more effective techniques such as role-play and group discussion should be substituted in life skills training. results in the untrained and trained groups, 23% and 8% of the students had very high self-efficac...

BACKGROUND Critical thinking is one of the most important concepts in the field of education. Despite studies published on nursing students' critical thinking skills (CTS), some suggest that there is not enough evidence supporting the relationship between content of nursing education programs and nursing students' CTS. OBJECTIVES Given the existing discrepancies, this study aimed to compare t...

background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

Introduction: Transcultural nursing education is often neglected within nursing curricula and inclusion within curricula may be haphazard. Little is known about nursing students’ views on transcultural nursing education. There is a lack of research examining how nursing students are prepared in university and practice settings for nursing in a multicultural society. Objective: To examine nursin...

BACKGROUND Studies have investigated burnout and compassion fatigue among nurses and effects in the nursing profession. However, there are limited investigations of burnout and compassion fatigue among undergraduate nursing students in South Africa, as nursing students may experience distressful situations during their nursing education course, which may have an impact during their training and...

background critical thinking disposition has been recognized as an essential feature in nursing. objectives we conducted this study to determine the effect of guided questioning on the disposition of critical thinking among nursing students. materials and methods in this quasi-experimental study, all the second year nursing students (n = 54) from tabriz nursing and midwifery faculty of iran in ...

background: learning style of students is one of the most important factors which influences on student learning. some negative effects on nursing student learning can be observed as a result of imbalance between it and teaching methods. using appropriate methods of teaching and determination of student learning styles can facilitate their leaning. hence, this study aims to identify the most co...