Ability to have good interpersonal relationship without social anxiety is the inseparable component of an effective nursing care process. The purpose of this study was to determine relationship between social anxiety and some demographic characteristics in undergraduate nursing students. This descriptive analytic study includes 400 students from Tehran University of Medical Sciences who were re...

The increasing employment of collaborated and blended learning techniques in educational institutes indicate that this kind of solution maximizes investments whether the growth of students demands more resources and teachers. Collaboration is working together towards a common goal at different times (time flexibility), in different locations (spatial flexibility), at different companies and edu...

The following study was implemented to explore the potential for a four-week curriculum module in gerontological social work education to positively impact students' practice-related knowledge concerning older adults, as well as their attitudes toward elderly persons and interest in working with them. Pertinent literature was reviewed to conceptualize the building of a gerontology curriculum mo...

AIMS To examine the influence of interdisciplinary seminars on undergraduate nursing and social work students' perceptions of their learning. BACKGROUND Collaboration is considered to be important for health professionals in working towards good patient care, and interdisciplinary education is seen as one way of addressing this need for greater collaboration and team work. Today's health prof...

In this article we will describe fundamental results of the European Union (Grundtvig) project IGIV – Implementation Guideline for an Intersectional Peer Violence Preventive Work (Stuve et al. 2011). For the need analysis individual and group interviews have been conducted including a wide variety of social nongovernmental and public organizations working in the field of diversity and violence ...

Background Historically, social work education (SWE) has not included formal and indepth training to address substance use in either coursework or fieldwork. Health-care reform offers promise to integrate medical and behavioral health through employment of social work professionals. It is critical that screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) be incorporated as basic ski...

A human rights perspective must be embedded in the institutions, organisations or agencies where social work students find themselves. This paper will focus on one particular strategy that could be helpful to the process of solidifying a commitment to human rights for our students. Using a pedagogical tool from a school of social work in the USA originally developed to combat the social injusti...