Background: The existence of a gap between theory and practice in nursing is a problem that is rooted in the history of nursing education, which means that there is a difference between what the student at the college and the behavior that appears in the clinic, and this discrepancy is of concern to community health educators. A coherent understanding of the learning and practice gap is a cruci...

This paper reports our implementation and evaluation of a wireless handheld learning environment used to support a clinical nursing practicum course. The learning environment was designed so that nursing students could use handhelds for recording information, organizing ideas, assessing patients, and also for interaction and collaboration with peers during an on-site clinical practicum. Our wir...

A student once told me that he preferred to work with another instructor because I took too long to make clinical decisions. When 1 asked him why, he gave me several examples of situations in which I had deliberated upon too long for his liking. None of these was simple in my opinion, nor did I agree with the other instructor's solutions. My dismay and introspection about this student's revelat...

Past research indicates several factors influencing teaching evaluation ratings instructors receive. We analyzed teaching evaluations from psychology courses during fall and spring semesters of 2003– 2004 to determine if class size, class level, instructor gender, number of publications (faculty instructors), average grade given by the instructor, and instructor rank predicted teaching evaluati...

having this condition. Clinical Focus is a regular sponsored feature designed to provide Canadian physicians with the latest in clinical thinking and therapeutic practice. Before prescribing any mentioned medication, please refer to the appropriate product monograph. SPECIALIST OVERVIEW Milan Gupta, MD, FRCPC Medical Director of Cardiology William Osler Health Centre, Instructor University of T...