* Taken from the course conclusion monograph “Sobrecarga dos cuidadores de idosos com acidente vascular cerebral”, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, 2011. 1 Undergraduate Nursing Student, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, São Paulo. [email protected] 2 Master’s student in Nursing, University of São Paulo a...

Reflection is a vital skill in contemporary nursing with student nurses expected to engage in reflective learning from the very beginning of the nurse educational programme. This article demonstrates the meaningful learning that resulted as a consequence of using critical reflection on practice. Gibbs' (1988) cycle aided the process highlighting the practical application of this cyclical framew...

Student evaluations can be a valuable method to transform teaching strategies and course design in nursing education. Negative student comments are difficult to view as constructive criticism and have the potential to lead to negative changes, rather than positive, productive changes for improved instruction and course design. This article provides a glimpse of recent empirical evidence regardi...

New strategies are emerging to promote structure and increase learning in the clinical setting. Nursing faculty designed a mechanism by which integrative learning and situated coaching could occur more readily in the clinical setting. The Clinical Goals Initiative was implemented for sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level students in their clinical practicums. Students developed weekly goals ref...

The preceptor is a nurse who teaches and supports the student and is seen as pivotal to student learning within the clinical setting. Earlier studies have shown that preceptors' pedagogical competence is significant for facilitating learning during clinical practice. However, studies describing pedagogical competence, especially in terms of teaching strategies, seem to be scarce. The aim of thi...

Address reprint requests to: Bang, Kyung-Sook, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Tel: 82-2-740-8819, Fax: 82-2-765-4103, E-mail: [email protected] This article is a revision of the first author’s master’s thesis from Seoul National University. Received: October 4, 2011 / Revised: November 23, 2011 / Accepted: December 5, 2011 The Effects of Kanga...

BACKGROUND As a response to an Australian shortage of clinical health, nursing, and medical placements, Commonwealth Government funding has been directed to expand student training opportunities and increase the competence and number of available clinical supervisors. This paper evaluates the application of a particular supervision training model for this purpose. It considers the model's suita...

To promote student-centered learning, a course council was established in a beginning undergraduate nursing course. A student representative was selected by peers to attend a monthly course council meeting with faculty. Representatives were asked to query classmates in their section of eight students regarding opinions, questions, and concerns about the course and then bring those views to the ...

The nursing students' main quest is for self actualization by attributing meaning to life through caring. To assist student nurses in this quest, the nurse educator needs to plan educational interventions according to an anthropological model that posits care and caring as innate human attributes. Further, the structural essence of what professional nursing caring entails should also be posited...

1 Nurse Graduate, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo. Holder of a PIBIC/EEUSP scholarship. [email protected] 2 Nurse, PhD. Professor at the Collective Health Department, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo(EEUSP). São Paulo, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 3 Nurse, PhD. Professor at the Collective Health Department, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo(EEUSP). São Pau...