Background: Educational advantages of simulation have been widely reported. Pre-briefing and debriefing support simulation methods. However, few detailed accounts of how the learning activities surrounding simulation are implemented exist. Objectives: This case example provides a detailed description of learning activities surrounding a simulation experience with a deteriorating cardiac patient...

The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the level of professional self-concept among new graduate nurses working in critical care and general medical surgical unit six months after completing a nursing program, (2) examine the professional self-concept in relation to age, marital status, and educational level of new graduate nurses, and (3) examine graduate nurses' perceptions of their...

quality and safety of patient care remarkably depend on the competency of healthcare providers. as predominant caregivers, nurses crucially influence the quality of patient care (1). on the other hand, as major educational organizations, nursing schools must offer competent expertise to the students in order to warrant high-quality patient care. in this regard, finding efficient methods to grad...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based nursing education is an increasingly popular pedagogical approach. It provides students with opportunities to practice their clinical and decision-making skills through various real-life situational experiences. However, simulation approaches fall along a continuum ranging from low-fidelity to high-fidelity simulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the e...

Nursing homes can be ideal clinical teaching and learning environments for acquiring geriatric specialty and interdisciplinary team skills, particularly those regarding assessment, care planning, management, monitoring, and collaborating in an interdisciplinary milieu. Little is known as to how geriatric specialty training programs use nursing homes to meet expected specialty competencies, or t...

introduction: nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. this study was performed to evaluate the nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study. methods: the research population in this study consists of all the students of nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). the data were collected from ...

the educational system is designed for some students’ kind of minds (e.g., those with strengths in attention, memory, language, social skills), for others, it is a daily struggle. unfortunately, the academic setting rarely accounts for this variability. regardless, at some point in time (for whatever reason), almost all students “hit a wall” (or face a challenge) which can make them doubt wheth...

The End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a train-the-trainer educational program that helps nursing faculty integrate care of the dying patient and the patient's family into the nursing curriculum. This article presents pedagogical techniques derived from the ELNEC teaching module on communication and key content areas for developing communication skills in end-of-life care. Comp...

Raheleh Janani, Abdollah Jannatdoost, Alehe Seyedrasuli, Leila Valizadeh, Parvin Sarbakhsh. Member of educational board of nursing and midwifery faculty of Tabriz University of medical sciences, Iran; Department of medical surgical, nursing and midwifery faculty, Tabriz University of medical sciences, Iran; MD neonatal nursing of Alzahra hospital and head of research of Alzahra research committ...