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A Comparison Of Skills Competency Test Scores Among Philippine-Educated Nursing Students After An Intensive Medical-Surgical Course, Margaret Fink, Debbie Daunt, Patricia Harris, Barbara Mccamish

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Objective: This study examined the effect of a 10-week intensive medical-surgical course on ability to perform 16 common, acute care skills among Philippine educated nursing students seeking licensure in California. The aims of the study were to (1) determine competency in performing skills at the start of the medical-surgical course and (2) evaluate the effectiveness of the medical-surgical course in improving skill competency.

Methods: Twenty-three Philippine educated nursing students participated in a 4-hour skills competency test procedure that involved 4 patient care stations and 16 common acute care skills. During the last week of the 10-week medical-surgical course that included …

Challenging Existing Paradigms: Critiques Of Internationalization, Kati Bell

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Universities are now more globally connected than ever before through technology, partnerships, and student mobility as teaching and learning increasingly moves beyond borders into a transnational realm of global education. In response to this globalization of higher education, universities around the world are feeling the pressure to intentionally develop and implement comprehensive internationalization policies, further motivated by a variety of factors including competition and financial growth. However, after nearly a decade of uncritical acceptance and support for the positive merits of the internationalization of higher education, internationalization is recently experiencing an emerging backlash of criticism. The publications presented in this …

Increasing Effective Service And Support For Students On The Autism Spectrum, Jacquelyn Urbani, Billye Brown, Colleen Arnold

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

From a campus workshop focusing on how faculty can more effectively work with students with autism.

Collection Development Policy For Dominican Scholar, Michael Pujals

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The purpose of Dominican Scholar is to collect, store, showcase, and to make freely accessible, the academic output of the University’s students and faculty in a single online open access environment.

Primary Objectives

• To collect and make accessible Dominican University of California (the University) research and creative works – e.g. journal articles, working papers, presentations, media - in a centralized online repository.
• To organize the University’s research and creative works, and to share them with the community – locally and globally.
• To disseminate the University’s research and creative works through open availability on the Internet.