Successful knowledge transfer or diffusion of e-learning practice goes beyond precursor incentives and anticipated rewards for the individual lecturer. It also involves wider enabling of learning attributes and cultural capabilities in an organization. This paper examines how some of these attributes and capabilities play out in an educational institution in the context of web-enabled technolog...

Book THE NINTH ANNUAL EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE POSTER DAY HUNTER-BELLEVUE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HUNTER COLLEGE SCHOOLS OF THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN: William Randolph Hearst Foundation Chair in Gerontology, Professor, Assistant Dean for Research, Director, Center for Nursing Research, Hunter-Bellevue

OBJECTIVE to discuss the professors' conceptions about the ethical dimension of nurse training based on the relationships which this establishes with the competencies with the professional profile; and to identify the spaces and strategies for the teaching of ethics in this process. METHOD A qualitative study delineated as a case study. The data was collected based on focus groups with profes...

Now, thirty-two years after graduating from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing (BS ‘84) in my hometown of Richmond, I can safely say that the single most important course I took in nursing school was not in nursing. Rather, it was a health humanities and medical ethics course taught in the School of Medicine by a hospital chaplain, Reverend Bob Yo...

ISSUES AND PURPOSE School nursing has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. The complex social and physical needs of children require an expanded role with advanced knowledge and skills. The school nurse functions as health promoter, health educator, collaborator, and researcher. Issues related to advanced practice and policy development also affect school nursing practice. CONCLUSIONS...

The National League for Nursing's Curriculum Revolution of the late 1980s called for a reexamination of curricular structures and processes: how nursing programs were designed, what they were striving to accomplish and how student learning was facilitated. Since that time, many schools have sought to implement innovative programs. Yet a closer look reveals that much of this "innovation" has foc...

The challenge of building new medical schools or expanding the class size of current ones is a lengthy and costly enterprise. That reality argues for the creation of a national vision about how to proceed and what to prioritize, a vision that could serve as a map for public and private officials considering further investment in medical education. A national commission funded by one or several ...

We use North Carolina data to explore whether the quality of teachers in the lower elementary grades (K-2) falls short of teacher quality in the upper grades (3-5) and to examine the hypothesis that school accountability pressures contribute to such quality shortfalls. Our concern with the early grades arises from recent studies highlighting how children’s experiences in those years have lastin...

BACKGROUND One of the most important purposes of health-oriented educational centers is to train competent nurses. This study was intended to discover the meaning of "competency of nursing academic staff" among nursing students and instructors. METHODOLOGY & METHODS A qualitative study using the content analysis approach was conducted. The data was collected through in-depth interviews consis...

In August 2010, AACN conducted an online survey of nursing schools offering baccalaureate and graduate programs in the U.S. to better assess the experience of new graduates in finding employment during these recessionary times. A brief online survey was developed to solicit information from 802 deans of nursing schools offering baccalaureate and graduate programs. A total of 516 valid responses...