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.
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Nurse education today · Feb 2002
ReviewAn action research study exploring how education may enhance pain management in children.
The aim of this study was to explore and address the views of children's nurses in relation to their educational needs on pain management. Action research was the methodology used: focus groups were run to identify the problem of nurses' educational needs; action planning was used to develop a short programme of study for nurses to address identified needs. Evaluation was by questionnaire and semi-structured interviews. ⋯ All the nurses said they gained knowledge on the day--in particular assessment of pain and the individuality of the pain experience. The nurses felt that their new knowledge increased their confidence and contributed to them feeling assertive when managing children's pain. The study findings suggest that the current provision in relation to education programmes for children's nurses needs to be improved, in order to provide them with the knowledge and confidence to manage children's pain more effectively.
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This article describes the development of a new degree programme in critical care nursing. The underlying principle, berzhind the degree, is that there are more similarities between the various 'critical care' areas than there are differences. ⋯ The focus of this programme is on educating nurses for practice within critical care as a whole - producing a practitioner who is able to nurse throughout the spectrum of critical care. The concept of a generic critical care nurse is fundamental to the philosophy of the programme, which has evolved from discussion exploring the provision of critical care required for the 21st century, and the nature of nursing that will be required to provide this service.
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Nurse education today · Apr 2001
Reviewing the review process: towards good practice in the peer review of manuscripts submitted to nursing journals.
Publishing in peer reviewed journals is an essential activity for nurses working in higher education. This paper offers some reflections on the processes involve in the reviewing of articles submitted for publication, and explores some ways in which this system may be improved. ⋯ This paper notes that there appears to be little or no consistency amongst the various nursing journals with respect to reviewing processes. Suggestions put forward in this article for consideration include: the standardisation of peer review systems across journals; the construction of guidelines for referees which caution against ad hominem attacks on authors; and the introduction of 'open' reviewing.