Nurse education today
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The delivery of health care services is changing dramatically. Increasing longevity, shortening of hospital stays, scientific and technological advances and population mobility contribute to the growing complexity of nursing. Nursing education must keep pace with these changes, which require new knowledge, skills and attitudes. ⋯ A brief history of modern nursing education is presented, together with its recent reforms and a view of future developments. The Nursing Diploma program, as the only academic nursing qualification, is inappropriate to respond to the present social needs. In Spain, as in other European countries, nursing education requires increasing professionalism, which could be achieved by implementing baccalaureate, master and doctoral programs within the framework of the Bologna Declaration signed in 1999 by the European Union Ministers of Education.
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Nurse education today · May 2002
The issue of death and dying: employing problem-based learning in nursing education.
Caring for dying patients can be an emotionally painful, distressing and sometimes threatening experience for nurses as the illness is incurable and death is imminent. The avoidance of discussion of dying in the presence of patients in Chinese culture further increases nurses' anxiety. The purpose of this article is to provide an example of how nurses can be helped when caring for dying patients by using a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in Hong Kong. ⋯ Independent finding of information not only prompted nurses to find information from books and journals, but nurses also interviewed experts and patients for updated and experiential knowledge. Tutorials serve as a safe environment for discussion and sharing of feelings and information. The results definitely support PBL as an effective teaching strategy for nursing educators in the area of death education.