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Nursing Students’ Perceptions Of The Impact Of Teamwork And Collaboration On Patient Care, Riana Square
Nursing Students’ Perceptions Of The Impact Of Teamwork And Collaboration On Patient Care, Riana Square
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Teamwork and communication are two topics that a vast majority of nursing students are introduced to in their first semester of nursing school. Many nursing students have a desire to improve their communication skills and have a better understanding of the inner workings of interdisciplinary collaboration. A study across multiple cohorts of Georgia Southern Nursing students was conducted to explore their perceptions of the correlation between teamwork and patient care outcomes. This study also explores nursing students’ readiness to communicate with other healthcare professionals and the effectiveness of the means to practice these communication skills while in nursing school. It …
A Mixed Methods Investigation Of First-Year Medical Students' Competency Development In The Gross Anatomy Laboratory Context., Emily M. Porta-Miller
A Mixed Methods Investigation Of First-Year Medical Students' Competency Development In The Gross Anatomy Laboratory Context., Emily M. Porta-Miller
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Competency-based medical education and competency assessment are common in the clerkship years of undergraduate medical education and in graduate medical education; however, they are less commonly included in the preclinical, or basic science, years of medical education. This study investigated the effects of a novel competency-based curricular thread which assessed Communication, Teamwork, and Professionalism competency development of first-year medical students in the gross anatomy lab context. The study employed a convergent parallel mixed methods approach. The quantitative phase used a pretest/posttest design with paired dependent t-tests to determine if students’ exhibited growth, stagnancy, or decline within any of the …