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Faculty Empowerment Of Students To Foster Civility In Nursing Education: A Merging Of Two Conceptual Models, Cynthia Clark, Bonnie Kenaley
Faculty Empowerment Of Students To Foster Civility In Nursing Education: A Merging Of Two Conceptual Models, Cynthia Clark, Bonnie Kenaley
Bonnie Kenaley
Academic incivility negatively impacts faculty and student well-being, weakens professional relationships, and impedes effective teaching and learning. This article addresses the prevalent concern of student incivility and provides useful strategies for faculty to empower students. Two conceptual models, Fostering Civility in Nursing Education and an Empowerment Model, were merged to illustrate how the concepts of civility and empowerment can be combined to foster civility in nursing education. Empowerment domains of motivation, psychic comfort, problem-solving, and self-direction are explored as influential factors promoting constructive reciprocal engagement and civility and, ultimately, enhancing professionalism in a complex and ever-changing health system.
Can Health Insurance Reduce School Absenteeism?, Ryan Yeung
Can Health Insurance Reduce School Absenteeism?, Ryan Yeung
Ryan Yeung
Enacted in 1997, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) represented the largest expansion of U.S. public health care coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid 32 years earlier. Although the program has recently been reauthorized, there remains a considerable lack of thorough and well-designed evaluations of the program. In this study, we use school attendance as a measure of the program’s impact. Utilizing state-level data and the use of fixed-effects regression techniques, we conclude that SCHIP has had a positive and significant effect on state average daily attendance rates, as measured by both SCHIP participation and eligibility rates. …
Implementing Longitudinal Community-Based Health Education Using A Sustainable Change Model, Judith Hudson, B. Smith, Elizabeth Farmer
Implementing Longitudinal Community-Based Health Education Using A Sustainable Change Model, Judith Hudson, B. Smith, Elizabeth Farmer
Elizabeth Farmer
The University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine provides a 4 year graduate entry medical programme aimed at producing competent graduates with a vocation to serve in rural regional and remote Australia. This innovative programme includes a longitudinal integrated clinical placement for a full academic year in the third phase of the course. All students will live, learn and work in a rural regional or remote community and engage with all health services including primary care, hospitals and extended services. This initiative aims to extend the concept of community based health education and continuity of care as a core curriculum …