Student w astage during basic nursing programmes has been estimated at between 20% and 47% per annum over the last 10 years (Kotze, 1987; SANA. 1983). The training of every student costs the state approximately R13 500 per annum according to an investigation done by the SA Nursing Association in 1987. The economic loss due to the student wastage is therefore significant. At the same time studen...

This article examines the experiences of a student nurse early in training and how such experiences form the basis to understanding caring in nursing. Upon reflection of a seemingly routine event with a patient, the student nurse inspects the meaning of caring, patient-centered care, and holistic care, along with their barriers in the practice of nursing. To conclude, the student explores poten...

introduction: the phenomenon of knowledge explosion has led teachers to feel the necessity of training students so that they become reflective thinkers. this issue is more important for nursing students who are responsible for providing care for patients.this study is a part of another study arming at exploration of nursing students’ views on reflection on practice. methods. 20 senior nursing s...

INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...

nursing students quality of sleep in dormitories of urmia university of medical sciences     ghanei r [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, rezaei k [3] , baghi v [4] , makki b [5]    received: 31 jan, 2011 accepted: 10 june, 2011   abstract  background & aims: sleep is a physiological and reversible phenomenon. one of its primary functions is to help organisms conserve their energy resources and it...

Background: the main purpose of medical education system is that the students achieve the highest levels of learning and professional competency. Training of skilled physicians is based on three domains including educational planning, environment, and psychological situation. Methods: Our study is a descriptive-analysis, conducted on 119 students including medical, nursing and midwifery groups ...

Jamileh Farokhzadian, Golnaz Forughameri, Abbas Karami. Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; MSc student of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kerman University of Medical Sci...

Health information technologies (HIT) have changed healthcare delivery. Yet, there are few opportunities for student nurses in their undergraduate studies to develop nursing informatics competencies. More importantly, many countries around the world have not fully specified nursing informatics competencies that will be expected of student nurses prior to their graduation from undergraduate nurs...

p0300 Nursing care is provided for people with widely diverse health and sick care needs in multiple contexts worldwide. The knowledge and competence to meet such a wide variety of care needs may be daunting for the student starting a programme of study to become a registered nurse. Nursing programmes are designed to allow knowledge and practice experience to be accumulated and assimilated by t...

Preparing nurses to meet the care needs of an expanding aging population is a challenge for nursing. Student experience in long-term care is typically limited to initial practicums. Students are rarely able to appreciate the complexity, challenge, and rewards of geriatric nursing. Few students seek geriatric nursing roles upon graduation, and care facilities report an inability to fill current ...