OBJECTIVE To determine the professional values of Turkish nursing students, and to explore the relationships between their characteristics. METHODS The cross-sectional study participants consisted of 416 nursing students who were studying in a nursing faculty in Western Turkey. A questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic and educational characteristics and the Nursing Professional ...

Providing ethically competent care requires nurses to reflect not only on nursing ethics, but also on their own ethical traditions. New challenges for nurse educators over the last decade have been the increasing globalization of the nursing workforce and the internationalization of nursing education. In New Zealand, there has been a large increase in numbers of Chinese students, both internati...

background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

introduction: one of the most important problems in student's education is academic failure. identifying factors that affecting academic achievement and pay attention to these factors is a stride toward success. students' academic achievement and related factors have priority in education research. this study aimed to determine the relationship between learning study strategies and ac...

a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

BACKGROUND To reduce nursing shortages, accelerated nursing programs are available for domestic and international students. However, the withdrawal and failure rates from these programs may be different than for the traditional programs. The main aim of our study was to improve the retention and experience of accelerated nursing students. METHODS The academic background, age, withdrawal and f...

effect of evidence-based nursing training on nursing students ability in executive skill of nursing process in urmia university of medical sciences, 2013     habibzadeh h [1] ,khajehali n [2] *,khalkhali hr [3] ,mohammadpour y [4]     received: 2 mar, 2013 accepted: 4 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : nursing process is the important pivot of nursing, and it is an icon of the art and s...

Increasing numbers of international students from Asia are attracted to Australian higher education institutions. For many of these students, English is their second language (ESL). This article describes the experiences of 21 Taiwanese baccalaureate and graduate nursing students studying at Australian universities. Using a qualitative framework, semistructured interviews were conducted in the ...

Objectives. Beliefs held by healthcare providers are part of the complex recovery of a patient with low-back pain (LBP). The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes and beliefs of Irish university healthcare students towards LBP. Methods. Physiotherapy (n = 107), medicine (n = 63), nursing, and midwifery (n = 101) students completed the survey. Demographic data, LBP related beliefs [...

Two nurse educators share a nursing knowledge course, which was created as a forum for questioning and discovery, thereby revealing a process of knowing nursing through inquiry. The process of inquiry in nursing praxis is emphasized, facilitating students' understanding that they are knowledge-users and creators. With students, we explore the construction of praxis, which includes being/becomin...