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A Capstone Project: A Way To Integrate Knowledge And Empower Students To Become Change Agents In The Practice Setting., Louela Manankil-Rankin, Ola Lunyk Child, Ruth Chen, Lynn Martin, Lynda Bentley Poole
A Capstone Project: A Way To Integrate Knowledge And Empower Students To Become Change Agents In The Practice Setting., Louela Manankil-Rankin, Ola Lunyk Child, Ruth Chen, Lynn Martin, Lynda Bentley Poole
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Nursing education today calls for creative and innovative ways in preparing students for the future. The growing complexity in the practice setting demands that nursing students gain exposure to skill sets that empower them to be change agents. A capstone project in the final year of an Undergraduate Nursing Program enabled students to integrate their knowledge from all areas of their curriculum to address quality improvement (QI) issues. While the students’ projects were not QI projects, they functioned as precursors or ideas for future QI initiatives. The capstone projects were graded using a designed marking rubric that addressed the Undergraduate …
Cognitive Rehearsal Training For Upskilling Undergraduate Nursing Students Against Bullying: A Qualitative Pilot Study, Florriann C. Fehr Dr., L. Michelle Seibel Ms.
Cognitive Rehearsal Training For Upskilling Undergraduate Nursing Students Against Bullying: A Qualitative Pilot Study, Florriann C. Fehr Dr., L. Michelle Seibel Ms.
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the effectiveness of an anti-bullying intervention called Cognitive Rehearsal Training (CRT) using a workshop format to increase third year nursing students’ knowledge and confidence to address bullying behaviour. A lanyard card identifying ten common bullying behaviours and possible phrases to stand up to bullying was used as a tool to Stop! Reflect! and Respond! as a process to resolve conflict (Griffin, 2004; Griffin & Clark, 2014). Although similar bullying interventions have been studied among practicing nurses, few studies exist that involve students within their pre-licensure training program (Iheduru-Anderson, 2014; Thomas, 2010) …
Quiet Lampshade In The Corner? Exploring Fourth Year Nursing Students' Narratives Of Transition To Professional Practice, Joanna Szabo, Sonya L. Jakubec, Katherine J. Janzen
Quiet Lampshade In The Corner? Exploring Fourth Year Nursing Students' Narratives Of Transition To Professional Practice, Joanna Szabo, Sonya L. Jakubec, Katherine J. Janzen
Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière
Recruitment and retention issues continue to be prevalent in all domains of nursing practice. Nursing students’ transition into practice is an understudied area of this concern. This study specifically explored the question: How do fourth year nursing students make meaning of their transition to professional practice? Data was collected from twenty-two field note journals and seven face-face interviews emerging from a capstone nursing theory course focused on nursing leadership, relational ethics, complex healthcare contexts and responsive action. For the participants of this study, the meaning of transitioning to practice manifested as: developing complex identity awareness, mediating expectations in the struggle …