Welch Medical Library has explored new roles for librarians in knowledge management instruction programs throughout the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing curricula. These programs have created roles for library staff as both instructors and knowledge management experts. By fostering strong communication and attention to quality instruction, librarians achieved their vision of a program...

BACKGROUND Postgraduate training in general practice aims to develop clinical competence. However, little is known about its effect on trainees' development of competence. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to investigate whether 3 years of postgraduate training in general practice leads to a higher level of knowledge than 2 years training while maintaining the same structure and educational objectives. ...

The International Society of Psychiatric Nurses as well as The American Psychiatric Nurses Association called for decentralization of psychiatric concepts in undergraduate nursing education. The author developed a series of simulation scenarios to address therapeutic communication and psychosocial needs in a variety of patient care settings. In terms of holistic care, psychological well-being i...

The integration of patient safety initiatives into the nursing curriculum is critical to preparing nursing students for delivering safe and high-quality patient care (QSEN Institute, n.d.). The focus of patient safety is to “minimize the risk of harm to patients and providers through both systems effectiveness and individualized performance” (QSEN Institute, n.d.). Although patient safety has a...

This paper reviews how the application of the adaptationist program in medicine – Darwinian medicine – has been presented and received in Norway from the time George Williams presented his lecture in 1990, prior to the publishing of the seminal paper "The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine". These ideas found their way into textbooks in 1996, and are also evaluated for inclusion in the curricula at sev...

The Institute of Medicine’s report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (2010), calls for new approaches in nursing education, including developing curricula to teach fundamental concepts that can be applied in a variety of situations. Concept-based teaching as a pedagogy focuses student learning on a core set of concepts relevant to nursing, such as perfusion, pain, coping,...

PURPOSE This article provides insights and perspectives from four experienced educators about their approaches to developing, delivering, and evaluating impactful simulation learning experiences for undergraduate nurses. A case study format has been used to illustrate the commonalities and differences of where simulation has been positioned within curricula, with examples of specialized clinica...

This study described the relationships between academic class and student moral sensitivity and reasoning and between curriculum design components for ethics education and student moral sensitivity and reasoning. The data were collected from freshman (n = 506) and senior students (n = 440) in eight baccalaureate nursing programs in South Korea by survey; the survey consisted of the Korean Moral...

California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) and San Marcos Elementary Schools have established a partnership to offer a large-scale community service learning opportunity to enrich science curriculum for K-5 students. It provides an opportunity for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors to give back to the community, allowing them to experience teaching in an elementary cla...