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Teaching Communication And Therapeutic Relationship Skills To Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Peer Mentorship Simulation Approach, Leslie Miles, Linda Mabey, Sarah Leggett, Katie Stansfield
Teaching Communication And Therapeutic Relationship Skills To Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Peer Mentorship Simulation Approach, Leslie Miles, Linda Mabey, Sarah Leggett, Katie Stansfield
Faculty Publications
The literature on techniques for improving student competency in therapeutic communication and interpersonal skills is limited. A simulation approach to enhance the learning of communication skills was developed to address these issues. Second-semester and senior nursing students participated in videorecorded standardized patient simulations, with senior students portraying the patient. Following simulated interactions, senior students provided feedback to junior students on their use of communication skills and other therapeutic factors. To integrate the learning experience, junior students completed a written assignment, in which they identified effective and noneffective communication; personal strengths and weaknesses; and use of genuineness, empathy, and positive regard. …
Np Bookshelf. [Review Of The Book Compassion Fatigue And Burnout In Nursing: Enhancing Professional Quality Of Life, By V. Todaro-Franceschi], Leslie W. Miles
Np Bookshelf. [Review Of The Book Compassion Fatigue And Burnout In Nursing: Enhancing Professional Quality Of Life, By V. Todaro-Franceschi], Leslie W. Miles
Faculty Publications
This book is not just for nurses who care for the dying patient but for all nurses who find themselves at some point in their career feeling burned out, dissatisfied with work life, bullied, or lacking a sense of meaning and purpose in their professional quality of life. Todaro-Franceschi identifies the causes of compassion fatigue and burnout as being multifactorial, yet having a core symptom of the nurse internalizing suffering to the point that it negatively transforms the care a nurse can give. The target audience is wide, with application to current practitioners, students, nurse educators, and anyone working in …
Moral Courage In Nursing: An Undergraduate Study, Heidi Newsome, Catherine Coverston, Dr. Beth Luthy
Moral Courage In Nursing: An Undergraduate Study, Heidi Newsome, Catherine Coverston, Dr. Beth Luthy
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this study is to identify examples of moral courage in nurses at work and to analyze through case studies their traits, processes, and skills that may be related to courageous acts in their work. This research may lead to helping other nurses to develop moral courage and decrease the frequency of moral distress found in nursing practice. The research question this research will answer is “How have nurses developed moral courage?” We anticipate that the research will yield examples, themes, and patterns of how nurses have developed moral courage in the work place to resolve ethical and …
Effective Leadership Qualities In Nursing Clinical Instructors, Elizabeth Gubler, Dr. Del La Cruz
Effective Leadership Qualities In Nursing Clinical Instructors, Elizabeth Gubler, Dr. Del La Cruz
Journal of Undergraduate Research
During the 20th century clinical nursing education underwent a drastic change. It shifted from apprentice training to faculty training, making it the responsibility of the teacher to promote learning in the clinical setting (Tang, Chou, & Chiang, 2005). Faculty have a profound influence on students’ feelings of success or failure in the clinical setting (Davidhizar & McBride, 1985), and have been proven to ‘make or break’ the practical experience (Cahill, 1996).