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Mobile Technology In Undergraduate Nursing Education: An Evidence-Synthesizing Project, Jillian Sisson
Mobile Technology In Undergraduate Nursing Education: An Evidence-Synthesizing Project, Jillian Sisson
Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship
Background: Undergraduate nursing students are faced with entering a complex healthcare environment with increasing acuity in which they must perform significant information recall in order to provide safe and quality patient care. Students are also tasked with the translation of nursing theory into ever-changing practice. The purpose of this capstone project was to review published studies to discover what is known about the accessibility of educational content on mobile technology in undergraduate nursing education.
Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted using Medline, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library databases. Articles were chosen for inclusion in the project if they were …
The Use Of Concept Mapping To Facilitate Critical Thinking Skills In Nursing Students, Juliana S. Frederick
The Use Of Concept Mapping To Facilitate Critical Thinking Skills In Nursing Students, Juliana S. Frederick
Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship
Background: Many prelicensure nursing students lack the critical thinking abilities to safely care for patients in today’s healthcare environments. Concept mapping is an active learning strategy that emphasizes a visual relationship between concepts that have the potential to promote meaningful learning and development of critical thinking. Therefore, the purpose of this evidence-synthesizing project was to review and synthesize current evidence to determine the best practices in nursing education to promote critical thinking abilities in prelicensure nursing students.
Methods: A literature search was conducted using CINAHL, Education Source, and ERIC databases which resulted in seven articles selected for review. The evidence …