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Relational Accountability: A Path Towards Transformative Reconciliation In Nursing Education, Joanna E. Fraser

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This paper provides a vision for working towards relationally accountable transformative reconciliation in nursing education. The author shares the teaching gifts she has received from Indigenous Knowledge Holders and through her experience of co-facilitating Indigenous led, land based, wellness-oriented field schools. It offers a way forward for nurse educators who are searching for ways to responsibly and meaningfully address colonial harms and actively engage in ethical, accountable and respectful relations with Indigenous People and Knowledges. The vision starts with transforming ourselves through bearing witness and experiencing the vulnerability of cultural humility. It requires us to transform our relationships through reframing …

Quest To Belong: Nursing Students’ Perceptions While Transitioning From College To University, Janet Montague, Joyce Tsui, Roya Haghiri-Vijeh, Michelle Connell

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Background: Students face challenges throughout their undergraduate nursing programs. Adapting to university, accessing resources, and transitioning from one year to the next and between institutions are examples of these challenges. Limited research exists on the perceptions of undergraduate nursing students’ sense of belonging while transitioning from college to university in a collaborative nursing degree program in Canada.

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to examine third year undergraduate nursing students’ perception of sense of belonging while transitioning from college to university in a collaborative nursing degree program. More specifically, the study aimed to identify factors that …

Just Because I Am A “Student” Does Not Mean I Should Tolerate It: Students’ Perspectives Of Forum Theatre To Address Bullying In Nursing Education, Kathy O'Flynn-Magee, Caryn Dooner, Agnes Choi, Raluca Radu, Ranjit Dhari, Lynne Esson, Amy Fong-Yuk Poon, Patricia Rodney

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The authors of this paper developed a CRAB (Cognitive Rehearsal to Address Bullying) Workshop, using Forum Theatre as an innovative pedagogical approach to explore the overly prevalent issue of bullying in nursing education. We designed two open-ended descriptive written surveys to obtain feedback from students on the efficacy of the workshop with respect to students’ ability to address bullying, and with respect to their capacity to engage in related embodied learning through Forum Theatre. We collected survey data at two points in time; 1) following a workshop during students’ first year in the program and 2) following a workshop during …

Establishing A Community Of Practice For Doctoral Studies Amidst The Covid-19 Pandemic, Christina M. Cantin, Sara Brune, Laura Killam, Tyler Glass, Ruth Walker, Emma Vanderlee

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In this discussion paper, we describe our experience completing the first year of the doctorate in nursing program at a large urban academic centre during the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the current nursing shortage and the importance of supporting all nursing students, including nurses in doctoral programs, towards successful graduation. We describe the development of a virtual community of practice incorporating five key strategies: Building community, fostering collaboration, strengthening connection, enhancing creativity, and promoting consistency. We believe that utilizing these strategies will contribute to our success and may be relevant to nursing leaders seeking to support the development of more …

The Crab Workshop: Using Forum Theatre And Cognitive Rehearsal To Address Bullying In Nursing Education, Kathy O'Flynn-Magee, Patricia Rodney, Skye Maitland, Kate Proznick, Hannah Turner, Lynne Esson, Ranjit Dhari, Amy Fong-Yuk Poon, Raluca Radu, Tom Scholte

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Bullying is a pervasive issue in nursing and other health care professional programs. As a student/faculty team at one university in Western Canada, we have created a number of initiatives within an overall project entitled Cognitive Rehearsal to Address Bullying (CRAB) that was designed to support students in managing bullying if they witnessed or experienced it during their program of study. One such initiative is the CRAB Workshop (herein referred to as “the CRAB Workshop” or “the Workshop”). In this paper, we describe the Workshop, which emerged in response to concerns shared by students and faculty regarding the normalized and …

“You Want Me To Come To Your Office?!”: Student Experiences Of Moving From Failure To Success In A Nursing Course, Sonya L. Jakubec, Joanne Bouma, Joseph Osuji, Mohamed T. El Hussein

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The experiences of undergraduate nursing students facing and overcoming failure in their coursework must be understood in order for nurse educators to effectively engage and provide supportive strategies to their students. A student-centred learning perspective and interpretive phenomenological approach to research frames this study of ten students’ accounts of their experiences from failure to success in a second year nursing course. Central themes include: Feeling Uncomfortable, Finding Confidence, and Cultivating a New Identity. Seeking feedback and building study habits and central to the students' pursuit of confidence and new identity formation. Implications for nurse educators’ proactive engagement with …

Challenges And Opportunities In Rural Nursing Preceptorship: What Multimedia Participant Action Reveals (Défis Et Possibilités Du Préceptorat Infirmier En Milieu Rural : Ce Qu’Une Participation Multimédia Révèle), Olive Yonge, Florence L. Luhanga, Vicki C. Foley, Deirdre M. Jackman, Florence Myrick, Tracy Oosterbroek

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Background: Rural health care sites struggle to attract new nurses, owing to a widespread perception that the hardships of rural practice far outweigh the benefits. Preceptorships are a key means of recruiting nursing staff to rural locations, but innovative, firsthand messaging is needed to promote rural preceptorships and nursing careers. Objectives: The researchers sought to elicit compelling, multimedia, firsthand accounts of the challenges and opportunities of rural preceptorship through participant action. Additional goals were to explore the ways in which participants reify their experiences through digital media, and the potential for digitally-based participant action research to empower participants. …

Nursing Faculty's Needs Of Knowledge, Beliefs, And Readiness To Implement Interprofessional Education In Their Teaching: An Exploratory Study, Louise Racine, Hope Bilinski, Paul Spriggs

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The drive towards interprofessional health education in nursing cannot be isolated from political and financial factors that affect Western countries and the demands for knowledge and skills required to face the health challenges of the 21^st century. Complex social determinants of health relating to demographic aging, health inequities, higher prevalence of non-communicable illnesses, and the rise of health care costs constitute the forces that push for the delivery of interprofessional health education. Despite the growing literature on interprofessional education in nursing and health sciences, less attention has been devoted to studying the needs of faculty development needs of nurse …