J Nurs Educ
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This study explored the meanings of the lived experience of nursing students as they care for patients who are suffering. In this interpretive phenomenological study, 13 nursing students participated in conversational interviews and wrote narratives about their experiences of being with someone who was suffering. Embedded in the students' stories are the ways they came to understand suffering in the context of learning to practice nursing. ⋯ Bearing witness to suffering patients called students to an awareness of their own vulnerability. A concern for learning amid suffering was present throughout the students' texts. The call to care can be sustained through a pedagogy of suffering that acknowledges the need for support through a caring community.
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The Collaborative Nursing Program in British Columbia is a nursing education program composed of 10 partners, including five community colleges, four university colleges, and one university. The Board of Accreditation of the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing granted a 7-year accreditation to the Collaborative Nursing Program partners in November 2000. ⋯ Using Boyer's model of scholarship, they have begun to evaluate their work of discovery, integration, application, and teaching against criteria in Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professorate. This article describes the journey the collaborative partners undertook in exploring the meaning of scholarship across the partnership and within each nursing school.
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Merging reflective inquiry and self-study as a framework for enhancing the scholarship of teaching.
This article provides a model for improving teaching practice and developing new knowledge about teaching. The reflective self-study approach to pedagogical inquiry is rooted in reflective inquiry and self-study as found in nursing and education literature, respectively. ⋯ Essential features of the model include interdisciplinarity and collaboration. Using the framework outlined in this article will help establish reflective self-study research as an accepted model of inquiry and further the dialogue on teaching in higher education.
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This study suggests there is a need to support the efforts already present to include SIDS in medical and nursing school curricula. Both programs have indicated a need for audiovisual and printed teaching materials. Consideration should be given to teaching materials that are easily updated such as computer-generated materials because of the many rapid changes that take place in SIDS research. ⋯ Finally, many states have SIDS services provided by professional programs and parent organizations. Students have the opportunity to work with these organizations to provide bereavement services and risk-reduction education. The organizations listed above can be contacted for further information.