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Nur 300: Individual Clinical Enrichment Building Bridges To Professional Practice, Freda Sharp, Bridget Roberts

Bridget R. Roberts

Objectives: Explain the concept of role transition as a challenge for students transitioning to the role of beginning professional practitioner. Discuss regulatory and administrative differences between service-based externships and educationally-based experiences. Appraise the value of an educationally based clinical enrichment experience for students approaching graduation. Utilize insights gained and lessons learned through the ongoing evolution of a program-based clinical enrichment course.

Nursing Students In A Developing Nation Using The Internet: A Phenomenological Study, Karen Breitkreuz

Karen R. Breitkreuz

Using a qualitative phenomenologial method, this study’s semistructured interviews illuminate the lived experience of nursing students from a developing nation, Malawi, Africa, in using the Internet as an educational resource. Analysis proceeded according to van Manen’s qualitative phenomenological method.

Five essential themes emerged from the students’ stories of their experiences: maintaining interpersonal connections with family and friends, using the Internet to find information, adapting information to fit their culture, using the information they find from developed nations as a comparative standard for care, and facing the challenges of learning to use technology.

Ultimately, the Internet provides these undergraduate nursing students …

The Effect Of Lecture And High Fidelity Simulations On Bsn Students' Skills, Knowledge And Reported Level Of Confidence Using High Fidelity Simulation (Poster), Luanne Linnard-Palmer, Jenna Felix

Luanne Linnard-Palmer