Prelicensure nursing education

BACKGROUND: Simulation, whether conducted live or through virtual technologies, provides students with experiential learning by replicating realistic clinical experiences that can develop learner competencies in a safe environment. Virtual reality simulation may provide the same level of effective and engaging experiential learning in a fully immersive learning environment without many of the limitations inherent to traditional live simulation environments, such as simulation equipment and designated labs...

Several challenges exist to providing effective, formalized end-of-life education for undergraduate nursing students. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the addition of a discourse intervention to the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Undergraduate Nursing Modules effectively improved junior-level prelicensure bachelor of science in nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward end-of-life care. This quasi-experimental 2-group comparison, pretest/posttest design consisted of a sample of 135 enrolled in a medical-surgical nursing class...

Current education for prelicensure students addresses informatics, typically focusing on theory, terminology, and an overview of systems. This leaves health partners with the burden of teaching "bedside" informatics skills. Utilizing an innovative new model, a course was developed to bridge the gap between theory and practical application. Students join mock clinical practice councils and perform chart audits to understand the important role of informatics in quality improvement. By using practical bedside informatics tools and applications, students learn to improve patient outcomes and safe care environments in alignment with current expectations...

Instruments to assess interprofessional behaviors in prelicensure interprofessional education (IPE) lack validity and reliability data. No individual behavioral assessment instrument met all standards of the Quality Appraisal of Interprofessional Learning Scales (QuAILS) checklist (Oates & Davidson, 2015). The IPA and iSOFT instruments provided the most substantial validity and reliability evidence. Future validation research studies of interprofessional education (IPE) behavioral instruments that evaluate interprofessional professionalism (IPP) domains are needed in nursing education...

AIM: The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy and skill performance in undergraduate student nurses. BACKGROUND: Across higher education, self-efficacy is an important predictor of student success in skill-based learning. Nursing students are required to demonstrate skills prior to caring for hospitalized patients. Understanding the relationship between self-efficacy and nursing student skill performance may support patient safety...

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BACKGROUND: Although the recruitment of internationally educated nurses (IENs) seems to be an effective strategy to sustain a diversified nursing workforce, challenges with transition to practice continue to be documented in the literature. Prelicensure bridging programs purport to facilitate practice readiness; however, IENs who complete these programs also experience difficulties. Little is known about tailored workplace-based bridging programs. This scoping review maps out our current understanding of IEN integration and education strategies implemented within acute care settings and identifies areas for further research...

BACKGROUND: Self-reflection is a valuable method that nurse educators can use to develop clinical judgment skills among prelicensure nursing students. Little research exists on improving clinical judgment in second-degree nursing students in the clinical setting. PURPOSE: To determine the implications of increasing clinical judgment skills in prelicensure nursing students using a shared structured reflection teaching innovation within a required baccalaureate clinical course...

BACKGROUND: Peer physical examination is a clinical teaching-learning approach used for decades because of the convenient sample of peers for practicing. However, this approach has limitations when learning to assess abnormalities and threatens psychologically safe learning. A wearable simulator system was designed for learning physical examination skills to minimize ethical and learning challenges. SAMPLE: The sample consisted of fifty prelicensure nursing students and ten faculty in an upper Midwest university...

BACKGROUND: The release of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's updated Essentials creates an opportunity for nursing programs and clinical partners to collaborate on strengthening curricula and improving new graduate practice readiness. This scoping literature review examined published models for collaborating with clinical partners on curricular initiatives to guide this process. METHOD: Three electronic databases were searched for peer-reviewed articles describing models for collaborating with clinical partners when revising nursing curricula to improve practice readiness...

BACKGROUND: Recruitment and mentoring of clinical preceptors for adjunct clinical faculty positions is essential to easing the nursing faculty shortage. This exploratory study investigated an academic-practice partnership through a summer nursing externship to recruit and mentor clinical preceptors for the clinical educator role. METHOD: This exploratory longitudinal study examined the success of recruiting and mentoring adjunct clinical educators at a Magnet hospital in the northeast United States...

A long-standing academic-practice partnership was leveraged to facilitate student learning opportunities pertaining to care provision for older adults living with multiple chronic conditions and complex medical problems. Students from a gerontological nursing course in an accelerated baccalaureate nursing program were partnered with gerontology-educated population health nurses in primary care settings. Students observed how population health nurses integrated the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Age-Friendly 4Ms framework into clinical practice as they performed behavioral, psychosocial, and biometric health risks assessments for older adults during their Medicare annual wellness visit...

PURPOSE: Developing strategies to educate, employ, and retain newly graduated nurses in perioperative (periop) settings is paramount to addressing a succession crisis with unprecedented vacancy rates. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of a prelicensure periop elective on the decision of participants to seek and accept a periop position upon graduation and to describe their transition to practice experience. DESIGN: This study used qualitative descriptive methodology...

OBJECTIVES: To examine the influence of heart failure high-fidelity simulation education based on the National League for Nursing (NLN) Jeffries Simulation Framework in prelicensure nursing education. METHODS: A heart failure high-fidelity simulation (HFHFS) education pilot project was carried out at Carrington College Sacramento. Twenty-three students participated in the study. This study used a quasi-experimental design. Students' Self-Efficacy, Satisfaction, and Knowledge in Heart Failure Clinical Knowledge were measured pre- and post-HFHFS education...

BACKGROUND: Recruiting, retaining, and educating nursing students is essential to meet the growing need for nurses in rural communities. A nursing school enhanced its prelicensure education in rural and public health nursing, and interprofessional care by expanding experiential learning opportunities. PURPOSE: To describe longitudinal community health-based rural immersion experiences for prelicensure nursing students. METHODS: A prospective, correlational design evaluated students' knowledge and confidence in understanding rural characteristics, confidence in achieving public health nursing, and interprofessional education competencies...

Since the development of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies, most published studies related to the topic have focused on investigating the perceptions of nursing faculty members, prelicensure and graduate nursing students, and recently graduated nurses regarding the competencies. Few researchers have explored practicing nurses' perceptions. The purpose of this study was to describe practicing perioperative nurses' perceptions of their knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with the QSEN competencies...

BACKGROUND: Prelicensure nursing students experience higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression than the remainder of the student body. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify whether implementation of Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) and a relaxation room decreased perceived stress levels in prelicensure nursing students. METHODS: This quasi-experimental pre- and posttest interventional study used a within-subjects design...

This qualitative descriptive study explored the perceptions of 63 prelicensure undergraduate nursing students about their learning experiences and the formation and development of professional identity in nursing (PIN). Students enrolled in a required course that included PIN concepts completed a guided reflective writing assignment. Four themes emerged with data analysis: 1) learning and applying ethics and values, 2) nursing knowledge is specific to nursing practice, 3) all nurses should be leaders, and 4) demonstrating professional comportment...

Competence in interprofessional collaboration is essential for safe patient outcomes. This study examined the impact of an interprofessional telehealth pharmacology simulation on prelicensure nursing and pharmacy students' perceptions of interprofessional roles. A pretest-posttest design was used to compare participants' perceptions of interprofessional roles prior to and following the simulation. Data were collected using the Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS). Paired-samples t-tests showed statistically significant increases in scores for both the full IEPS (n = 99) and two subscales, Competency and Autonomy (n = 99) and Perception of Actual Cooperation (n = 99)...

BACKGROUND: Early identification of a transfusion-associated adverse event (TAAE) is key to patient safety. Research has indicated that use of a TAAE checklist resulted in greater frequency of TAAE recognition behaviors. PURPOSE: To explore whether use of a TAAE checklist resulted in greater frequency of TAAE recognition behaviors among nursing students. METHODS: A prospective, randomized controlled study was conducted with 62 nursing students playing the role of a registered nurse in a simulation of a patient exhibiting clinical indicators of a TAAE...