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Approachability Of The Nursing Clinical Instructor: Psychometric Assessment Of A Scale Development, Angela Collier
Approachability Of The Nursing Clinical Instructor: Psychometric Assessment Of A Scale Development, Angela Collier
International Journal of Health Sciences Education
Approachability of nursing clinical instructors is largely unknown and misunderstood, yet critical for millennial students which currently comprise 82% of nursing students (National League for Nursing, 2014). Nursing education consists of both a didactic and a clinical component. Clinical education is dynamic and allows the student an experiential learning opportunity. Therefore, clinical nursing educators are vitally important. Approachability has been identified in many studies as a leading characteristic of an effective instructor. Although the importance of approachability of the instructor is established, currently no scale exists to measure this concept. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity …
The Prevalence Of Smoking In Nursing Students, Jennifer Trotter
The Prevalence Of Smoking In Nursing Students, Jennifer Trotter
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Tobacco use is one of the most preventable sources of death and disease, and yet remains a worldwide problem. With the rising costs of healthcare, the focus of efforts to control them has honed in on lifestyle behaviors that contribute to the escalating costs. Within the scope of this scrutiny, the prevention or cessation of smoking and tobacco usage has become a global priority and a major focal point of worldwide anti-tobacco initiatives. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified cessation interventions by health care professionals as a crucial factor in successful patient smoking cessation, and studies have shown that …