The authors describe the relationship between nursing student math aptitude and success on a medication calculation assessment given during the second year of the nursing curriculum. The importance of understanding this relationship to nursing education is highlighted.

OBJECTIVE This paper demonstrates the establishment of an extra-curricular education program in Chinese context and evaluates its effectiveness on undergraduate nursing students' self-directed learning. METHODS Zimmerman's self-directed learning model was used as the theoretical framework for the development of an education program. Mixed-method was applied in this research study. 165 undergr...

Although nurse educators have designed many techniques for enhancing critical-thinking skills in clinical and seminar settings, lectures also remain an integral part of nursing education. The author offers practical active learning strategies for promoting critical thinking in large classroom instruction.

Abbildung 2: Teilnehmende im Hörsaal V9.01 Eröffnet wurde die Tagung durch Grußworte von Ministerialdirektor Klaus Tappeser, Amtschef des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (2008-2011) (siehe Abbildung 3) und Karin Maag MdB (CDU) (siehe Abbildung 4). Beide betonen die Notwendigkeit und Herausforderungen, die Personalund Unternehmenspolitik im Gesundheitswesen u...

This article discusses nursing education and changing paradigms of knowledge, emphasizing critical thinking, nursing praxis, and the place of the educator as a role model who provides knowledge, facilitates critical thinking, and teaches students how to cope with the knowledge. It interprets the connection between knowledge and power as a potential source of injustice and inequality in the stud...

BACKGROUND Nurses experience insufficient medication knowledge; particularly in drug dose calculations, but also in drug management and pharmacology. The weak knowledge could be a result of deficiencies in the basic nursing education, or lack of continuing maintenance training during working years. The aim of this study was to compare the medication knowledge, certainty and risk of error betwee...

Successful achievement of program outcomes is the primary goal of nursing education programs. Electronic portfolios are a contemporary method by which to measure student achievement, assess curricular efficacy, and evaluate program integrity in nursing education. The authors outline the sequential process of understanding, introducing, and integrating electronic portfolios into a curriculum.

In the midst of a nursing faculty shortage, recruitment and retention of new faculty are of utmost importance if the country is to educate and graduate a sufficient number of nurses to fill the health care demands. The pressure of horizontal hostility combined with lack of support, guidance, and knowledge about the educational system makes the novice nurse faculty members vulnerable to burnout ...

Caring should be incorporated in the curriculum and the focus of nursing education. However, measurement of nurses' perceptions of caring abilities remains an area that is not well explored. This pilot study explored nursing students' perceptions of caring and their ability to form caring relationships with clients after hearing clinical nurses discuss their own caring experiences. Fourteen nur...

The aim of this article is to illustrate the relation between the cognitive styles in Kolb's experiential learning model and dominance in brain functioning. A descriptive analytical study of the literature on creativity and the development of creative thinking, explored various theories and definitions of creativity, and the nature of creative learning. Congruences between cognitive styles and ...