Nurse education today
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Nurse education today · Nov 2020
Delivering culturally competent care to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population: Education for nursing students.
Despite well-documented healthcare disparities in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, nursing education has lagged other health professions in promoting culturally competent care to members of this minority group. ⋯ Educational content focused on cultural competency for nurses may lead to improved health outcomes among the LGBT community.
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Nurse education today · Jun 2020
Memento Mori: Can art assist student nurses to explore death and dying? A qualitative study.
To report how an art-based workshop assisted undergraduate nursing students to explore their experiences and beliefs about death and dying. ⋯ This shared experience encouraged open and honest discussion and reflection, enhanced critical thinking and the need for compassionate person, and family-centred palliative and end-of-life care. While this study focused on an educational strategy delivered to student nurses, it is an approach that could be used with other health and social care professionals. Close and critical observation of the selected art increased participant understanding and insight of the many experiences and interpretations of death and dying.
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Nurse education today · Apr 2020
Using tabletop exercises to evaluate nurses' clinical performance of hazardous materials disaster management: A cross-sectional study.
Hazardous materials (Hazmat) disaster is a specific event with low probability but may be a heavy burden on public health. Competence in Hazmat disaster emergency management is necessary for nurses who care about mass casualties in the first line, especially for nurses in military hospitals. However, less attention has been paid to evaluation of competence of Hazmat disaster emergency responses using tabletop exercises. ⋯ The tabletop exercise is an innovative method for disaster nursing educators seeking to evaluate response competence in Hazmat disaster simulation exercises. It is necessary to consider the characteristics of the participants when designing the training program and educational strategies. Participants from the military hospital were shown to have limited competence in Hazmat disaster emergency management.