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Accepted In Bella Bella: A Historical Exemplar Of A Missionary Nursing Education, In British Columbia From 1921-1925, Sarah C. Cook, Sonya Grypma
Accepted In Bella Bella: A Historical Exemplar Of A Missionary Nursing Education, In British Columbia From 1921-1925, Sarah C. Cook, Sonya Grypma
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
This study explores the largely-unknown history of missionary nursing on British Columbia’s Northwest Coast between 1901 and 1925, built around the experience of nurse Doris Nichols. From 1903 until 1935 in the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) village of Wáglísla (Bella Bella) there existed a small but persistent school of nursing within a Methodist mission hospital. The hospital was built with the intention to bring spiritual and physical healing to local Indigenous people, however the medical missionaries served all in need along the central coast, and the nursing school sustained this mission. Nichols arrived at Bella Bella in 1921, where she began her …
“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
“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
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
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 …