Nursing student, service learning

AIM: This study aims to elicit graduate entry nursing students' views on factors that enable and constrain their learning engagement. BACKGROUND: Learning engagement has been associated with student retention/attrition and the achievement of learning confidence and success. While all students are subject to challenges that affect their learning engagement, those experienced by international students who are learning in a foreign and unfamiliar context are of particular concern to academics...

BACKGROUND: Due to the global prevalence of dementia the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease recommended that healthcare professionals prepare to address the complex needs of people with dementia. To address this gap, nursing programs adopted experiential learning methods. While such methodologies are increasingly used, limited evidence exists to inform best teaching practices. PURPOSE: This study evaluated the combined effect of an e-learning module with a virtual simulation on nursing students' knowledge and attitudes of dementia...

Mental health needs in school are increasing and can affect every student. School nurses are in a perfect position to support social-emotional learning and implement coping strategies to aid in student success. This article features the implementation of social-emotional interventions in the school health office for all students using the multitiered systems of support (MTSS) framework. MTSS is an evidence-based framework that integrates prevention and tiered intervention with data-based problem-solving to meet the academic and behavioral needs of students...

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent vaccine hesitancy highlighted the need for additional learning experiences for nursing students to address person-centered care and communication. This project aimed to employ a three-step service-learning experience consisting of town hall meetings, motivational interviewing training, and rural health fairs to address vaccine hesitancy in communities surrounding the college. Evaluation of the project revealed satisfaction and increased confidence among participating nursing students...

Nursing students desire more training and experience in palliative care due to a need for more skills and knowledge. This descriptive qualitative study explored nursing students' experiences in participating in a student death doula service-learning program in palliative care settings. Fourteen final-year undergraduate nursing students participated in semi-structured focus group discussions via Zoom. Four focus group discussions were conducted. Six themes with 19 subthemes were developed: (1) initial feelings of fear and uncertainty, (2) death doula training and orientation, (3) palliative wards being a happier place than expected, (4) experience of watching their patients deteriorate over time, (5) benefits of participating in service-learning in palliative care settings, and (6) improving the service-learning experience...

Health professions education is tasked with preparing the behavioral health workforce to provide accessible, high-quality, interprofessional care to meet the needs of geographically-isolated populations. Interprofessional experiences, like simulation, are an effective pedagogical tool, yet traditionally occur in-person. It is essential to adapt simulation experiences for the virtual environment to increase training accessibility among the emerging rural workforce. This study aimed to understand the impact of the virtual learning environment on interprofessional simulation (IPS) outcomes among social work (MSW) and nursing (MSN) students...

Amidst a critical shortage of registered nurses, nursing schools are aiming to expand enrollment while working with ongoing resource constraints. Service-learning clinical activities can enhance nursing education by improving clinical quality, addressing faculty and clinical site shortages, and meeting increasing enrollment demands. This paper describes a health fair experience that served as a service-learning clinical experience within an undergraduate public health nursing course. The experience bridged theoretical knowledge with real-world application, fostering competency-based learning and addressing community health needs, resulting in a positive impact on students, faculty, and the community...

Telehealth allows access to high-quality, holistic patient care, including diagnosis, interventions, treatments, monitoring, and patient education. As the use of telehealth continues to increase, faculty considered the need for entry-level nursing students to be introduced to telehealth and its services. Faculty from the medical-surgical II and mental health courses developed a learning experience for students that blends concepts from both courses, as patients often present with multiple problems. The telehealth experience helped students utilize assessment skills, learn delegation, and connect concepts from two courses to provide care for a patient remotely...

BACKGROUND: Self-confidence is a key element in successfully promoting achievement strivings among the healthcare workforce. Targeted interventions can strengthen this characteristic in nursing students, thus improving the quality of hospital services. OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the effect of educational interventions on boosting self-confidence in nursing students using systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: A comprehensive search was used to screen the related studies in Scopus, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and PsycINFO...

OBJECTIVES: Leadership knowledge and skills are known to be developed by health professionals during global health experiences overseas. However, volunteers struggle to recognise and use these new skills on return to their workplace. A series of bespoke leadership workshops were designed, delivered and evaluated by leadership experts to help enhance the transferability of leadership skills back to the UK National Health Service. DESIGN: A mixed-methods participatory action research methodology was employed to explore the impact of the workshops...

Introduction Despite the fact that tobacco use continues to have significant public health impacts, most healthcare providers are not adequately trained to counsel patients on their tobacco use or to provide cessation resources. Although all healthcare providers have a role in providing tobacco cessation assistance, physicians and advanced practice providers are generally the only practitioners able to furnish tobacco cessation medications and bill insurance for their cessation services. Therefore, ensuring these practitioners are properly trained to offer tobacco cessation to their patients is critical to addressing this public health threat...

BACKGROUND: A theory-practice gap in nursing education often occurs, and the staff from the nursing education institution and the associated healthcare services should find ways to improve their collaboration to reduce the gap during the training of nursing students. AIM: This study aimed to develop context-specific collaboration guidelines for a nursing education institution and associated healthcare services. SETTING: Private hospital in the Gauteng province of South Africa...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate student nurses' perceptions of how creative art activities might support spiritual self-exploration, foster understanding of holistic care and promote spiritual growth in relation to Mercy and Jesuit values emphasized in their nursing program. Design: A qualitative design was used with data collected through surveys and students' reflections. Methods: Students enrolled in an introductory nursing course with a service-learning component participated in the study...

North Carolina home health and hospice agencies are experiencing serious shortages of registered nurses (RNs), particularly in rural areas. These shortages can negatively impact patients and families by delaying access to care and possibly resulting in avoidable hospitalizations/rehospitalizations. Many home health and hospice agencies do not hire newly graduated RNs due to limited patient care experience, limited or no opportunity for home health/hospice clinical rotations, and the autonomous nature of providing care in the home...

BACKGROUND: Influenced by socio-cultural and world events, Chinese society has significant intergenerational differences. With rapid economic and cultural development, the unique characteristics of Generation Z nursing students in China may influence the clinical education environment. However, the research on Generation Z in China is still in its infancy. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of Generation Z nursing students during their practicum in an intensive care unit (ICU) in the context of China's unique cultural and historical background...

AIM: This study investigated the impact of service-based learning on the health education competencies of students in community health nursing internships. community health nursing internship is one of the areas where students acquire health education competencies. Studies have shown that some students have poor health education competencies, and new educational interventions, such as service-based learning, can help improve their competencies. METHOD: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2021-2022...

OBJECTIVE: Teaching first aid (FA) to children and young people is a priority strategy in Public Health. The aim of this paper was to review and analyze new educational legislation within the FA curriculum framework, which is necessary for providing teachers and healthcare professionals with a practical guide that guides teaching to train first responders in different school stages. METHODS: A group of four experts with curricular experience at different educational levels, as well as in the field of FA, participated in this analysis...

BACKGROUND: Nursing students from diverse or equity backgrounds are less likely to possess the required skills to ensure success in their studies. This research explores the impact of embedded support on student learning in a first-year foundational subject, Contexts of Nursing, in an undergraduate nursing degree.t. METHODS: The Embedded Tutor Program offers specialised tutoring support for first-year undergraduate students. Embedded tutors, with backgrounds as registered nurses and academics, provided online one-on-one feedback to students on draft assessment tasks...

Objectives　Bioterrorism is a disease in which the attacks can be covert and latent, take time to manifest, and, when discovered, can result in large outbreaks. When detected, they can become large-scale outbreaks. Therefore, preparedness is essential for early detection and response for damage mitigation. Although public health nurses (PHNs) of public health centers are responsible for detecting and dealing with bioterrorism, their preparation status is not clear. Therefore, this study aimed to elucidate the status of training experience, knowledge, and awareness of bioterrorism among PHNs working in public health centers' infectious disease control departments in Japan's metropolitan areas...

Rural communities are geographically isolated from large urban areas, affecting access to definitive care, specialists and other health services that only service urban areas. Rural decision-makers are often faced with numerous challenges regarding the availability, capacity, sustainability and performance of health systems in rural and remote areas. We evaluated the current body of literature on educational initiatives being used in under-resourced areas to increase the knowledge or skills of healthcare workers...