Background Clinical experience associated with the fear and anxiety of nursing students in the psychiatric unit. Mental health nursing instructors find it challenging to teach nursing students to deal with patients with mental disorders in an environment where they need to provide patient teaching and clinical decision-making based on evidence and new technology. Objective To measure the effe...

With the advent of Outcomes-Based Education in South Africa, the quality of nursing education is debatable, especially with regard to the assessment and evaluation of clinical nursing education, which is complex and renders the validity and reliability of the methods used questionable. This paper seeks to explore and describe the use of portfolio assessment and evaluation, its implications and ...

Background: Due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  The purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

1 BACKGROUND Graduate medical education has recently undergone a major archetypal shift toward competency-based evaluations of residents’ performance. The implementation of the milestone programs by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a core component of the shift, designed to ensure uniformity in measuring residency knowledge using a series of specialty-specific achieve...

AIMS This paper reports a review that identified and synthesized nursing documentation audit studies, with a focus on exploring audit approaches, identifying audit instruments and describing the quality status of nursing documentation. INTRODUCTION Quality nursing documentation promotes effective communication between caregivers, which facilitates continuity and individuality of care. The qua...

The potential use of computer technology in teaching and continuous education for nursing motivated the development of this study to evaluate the virtual learning object, "Diagnostic Reasoning in Nursing Applied to Preterm Newborns" at an intermediate neonatal care unit. This descriptive study evaluates the appearance and content of the virtual object concerning aspects related to presentation,...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical application of national guidelines for neonatal nursing. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Thirty-nine neonatal care units in Sweden. STUDY PARTICIPANTS Thirty-five of 39 nurse managers at all Swedish neonatal care units. INTERVENTION Thirteen clinical guidelines for neonatal nursing care were presented in 1997. Recommendations on evidence-based nur...

Faculty Name Cricket Barakzai Faculty Name Dorothy Fraser Current Faulty Rank Assoc Prof / Current Faculty Rank Lecturer/ Int. Dir., Ctr. for Excellence in Nursing Chair, Nursing Evaluation Committee Department Nursing School/College Health & Human Services Office Phone 451-3428 Office Phone 278-7978 E-mail maryb E-mail dfraser Campus Mailing Address 2345 E. San Ramon Ave. M/S MH25 Fresno, Cali...