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Electronic portfolios have been created by students ranging from elementary to post secondary, and by professionals in divergent fields ranging from art to business. The specific intentions of the portfolios are equally disparate, including showcases of accomplishment, competency, and self-reflection. For students in the teacher education programs advocating electronic portfolios, the initial d...

BACKGROUND Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST) is a learning program that uses simulation to provide health professional students and practitioners with strategies to communicate sensitively with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients. It consists of training modules with a cultural competency evaluation framework and CALD simulated patients to interact with...

Aims. To critically review educational research describing nursing teamwork competency development and to synthesize these findings in determining what teachinglearning components best promote the evolution of competent nursing teamwork. Background. Since the Institute of Medicine (2000) recommended enhancing coordination and communication abilities of healthcare teams, many educational initiat...

BACKGROUND The CanMEDS roles provide a comprehensive framework to organize competency-based curricula; however, there is a challenge in finding feasible, valid, and reliable assessment methods to measure intrinsic roles such as Communicator and Collaborator. The objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) is more commonly used in postgraduate medical education for the assessment of clinical skill...

The concept of this honors project was to explore correctional nursing competency, working closely with my advisor and the research team. Key findings from the initial competency assessment evaluation phase were compiled, organized, and analyzed. A podium presentation “Advancing Correctional Nurse Competencies for Quality Care: Evaluation of Simulation Learning and Satisfaction” was given at th...