Nurse education today
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Nurse education today · Feb 2015
ReviewPain knowledge and attitudes of nursing students: a literature review.
Pain management is a priority in nursing care but nursing students often find it a challenge. To prepare nursing students adequately, nurse educators need to understand nursing students' pain knowledge and attitudes and design interventions to enhance their readiness for pain management. ⋯ Studies consistently revealed the inadequacy of pain knowledge and inappropriate pain management attitudes of nursing students. Pain education programs are limited in number, but they demonstrated effectiveness in improving nursing students' pain knowledge and attitudes. Implications for research on pain knowledge and attitudes, and the implementation of pain education programs for nursing students are discussed.
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Nurse education today · Feb 2015
Empathetic attitudes of undergraduate paramedic and nursing students towards four medical conditions: a three-year longitudinal study.
In the healthcare context empathy is the cognitive ability to understand a patient's perspectives and experiences and to convey that understanding back to the patient. Some medical conditions are frequently stigmatised or otherwise detrimentally stereotyped with patients often describing healthcare practitioners as intolerant, prejudiced and discriminatory. ⋯ This study has demonstrated significant differences in empathy between paramedic and nursing/paramedic double-degree students in regard to patients with these complex medical conditions. Paramedic/nursing students generally showed a positive change in empathy towards these complex patients by their third year of study; however, they also showed some alarming drops in empathy between second and third year.
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Nurse education today · Feb 2015
Comparative StudyThe effects of mobile applications in cardiopulmonary assessment education.
Mobile applications can be used as effective simulations for nursing education. However, little is known regarding the effects of mobile application-mediated training on nursing. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mobile applications by comparing the effectiveness of a high-fidelity human patient simulator to that of a mobile application on student learning. ⋯ We found that mobile applications provide educational tools similarly effective to a high-fidelity human patient simulator to maintain memory and to teach cardiopulmonary assessment skills.