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The relationships of nurses' critical thinking ability and patients' self-disclosure to accuracy in nursing assessment of depression in elderly medical patients
This study investigated the relationships of nurses' critical thinking ability and patients' self-disclosure to accuracy in nursing assessment of depression in elderly medical patients. The sample consisted of 120 female ...
Taxonomy of nursing clinical credibility as described by nurses and physicians
Introduction: Nursing clinical credibility, a complex, abstract concept is rarely mentioned in the clinical setting, but is implicitly understood by nurses and physicians. The concept has neither been defined nor explored, ...
The influence of practice experiences on feelings of role proficiency in emergency nurse practitioners: A phenomenological study
The evolution of this research emerged from experiences in the researcher’s clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in a variety of urgent care facilities, and the personal queries raised regarding the consistency ...
A study of the effect of nursing student preceptorship programs on the development of clinical competence in the senior baccalaureate nursing student
Many new graduate nurses lack clinical competence in the practice setting. The purposes of this study were (a) to examine the differences in the gains in clinical competence between those students who participated in summer ...
Effects of anxiety reducing interventions on performance anxiety in graduate nurses
Every new nursing graduate is challenged to successfully transition from student to professional nurse. The stress involved in that transition can manifest itself as performance anxiety, a type of anxiety occurring when ...
Perceptions of instructor caring behaviors, self-esteem, and perceived clinical competence: A model of the attitudinal component of professional nurse autonomy in female baccalaureate nursing students
This model testing correlational study was designed to specify a model of predictors of the attitudinal component of professional nurse autonomy and to test three carative factors embedded in Watson's Theory of Transpersonal ...
Medication dosage calculation: A mathematical intervention for nursing students
(2017-02-17)
Nurse educators continue to express concern over the struggle that nursing students have with mathematical calculations necessary to compute medication dosage. This applied dissertation designed, implemented, and evaluated ...
Enhancing critical thinking disposition and clinical judgment skills in senior BSN students via electronic interactive simulation
(2017-01-09)
The problem investigated in this study was the lack of empirical evidence available regarding the effectiveness of electronic interactive simulation (EIS) for developing critical thinking disposition and clinical judgment ...
Deliberate practice using simulation to improve clinical competency and confidence
Bridging the gap between classroom learning and nursing practice is an ongoing concern in nursing education. Multiple studies have found that students who are provided the knowledge, skills and modeling behavior, in addition ...
Patient safety competencies in rural ASN students: An evidence-based curricular innovation
(2017-09-12)
Hospital clinical experiences are important events in prelicensure nursing education. Benefits include the opportunity for students to experience actual nursing responsibilities, immersion into environment, and ...