An online epidemiology course was developed, implemented, and evaluated for graduate nursing students through the collaborative efforts of nursing faculty and information, education, and instructional design staff of the library at a health sciences university. This epidemiology course is a core curriculum course for graduate nursing students. The course was piloted with 14 students (one studen...

BACKGROUND Challenging behavior exhibited by people with dementia can have adverse outcomes, like stress, low morale, low work satisfaction and absenteeism for nursing staff in long-term care settings. Training nursing staff to manage challenging behavior may reduce its impact. Although much of the research into training nursing staff shows methodological limitations, several studies find some ...

Background: Traditional nursing education is based on the transfer of knowledge. However, education based on skills and competencies is focused not only on knowledge but also on professional attitudes and psychomotor skills. Such a notion of education provides for safe and effective nursing practice without the need of direct supervision. Its implementation requires the refinement of learning o...

Knowing the difference between health service evaluation, audit and research can be tricky especially for the novice researcher. Put simply, nursing research involves finding the answers to questions about “what nurses should do to help patients,” audit examines “whether nurses are doing this, and if not, why not,” and service evaluation asks about “the effect of nursing care on patient experie...

This article describes the evaluation of an innovative, concept-based baccalaureate nursing curriculum. Curriculum evaluation is an ongoing process that serves to ensure the delivery of quality education. Findings from surveys and focus groups identified strengths of the new curriculum as the conceptual approach, interactive small-group learning activities, clinical intensives, and early patien...

background: nurses are the main members in nursing cares and nursing managers can improve their clinical competency by applying better leadership skills. this study carried out to determine the effect of nursing management program on clinical competency of nurses in a coronary care unit (ccu). methods: a quasi-experimental study was carried out in two educational hospitals in yazd- iran. these ...

Nursing education and nurses' articulation with the working market are guided on the premise that the quality of nursing service is related to training workers to be reflexive subjects. The main object of the study was to understand nursing education based on the current political pedagogical projects (PPPs) of nursing courses and, more specifically, to verify with coordinators and/or former-co...

The time immediately following an accreditation visit is ideal to reevaluate and update the plan for ongoing systematic program evaluation. This article demonstrates how use of an evaluation framework, existing nursing program resources, data, and a timeline can be integral to an ongoing program evaluation plan. Guidelines provided by the accrediting body can be the template for the evaluation ...