There is an abundance of evidence that nursing programmes across the UK have been criticised for not 'decolonising' their curriculum content to prepare students to partake in a diverse workplace. Nursing programmes have been developed in line with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to deliver safe and effective care to patients, yet the literature records that Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) nursing students face discrimination and experience a lack of role models in academia. In this article the term BAME will be used as it is recognised within a wide range of literature, however the authors wish to acknowledge that this term and other terms used when defining ethnicity is contested.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 2016 All Together Better Health VIII Oxford conference brought together interprofessional education (IPE) and values-based practice (VBP) communities. As there is a paucity of research and publications in the area, following the event a working party consisting of representatives from both communities continued to meet and has developed a joint community of practice. This report describes the work achieved by the group so far and is intended for those involved in the planning and implementation of IPE and collaborative working.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim And Objective: To explore the accuracy with which nursing students can identify the fundamentals of care.
Background: A challenge facing nursing is ensuring the fundamentals of care are provided with compassion and in a timely manner. How students perceive the importance of the fundamentals of care may be influenced by the content and delivery of their nursing curriculum.
The invention of electric light has facilitated a society in which people work, sleep, eat, and play at all hours of the 24-hour day. Although electric light clearly has benefited humankind, exposures to electric light, especially light at night (LAN), may disrupt sleep and biological processes controlled by endogenous circadian clocks, potentially resulting in adverse health outcomes. Many of the studies evaluating adverse health effects have been conducted among night- and rotating-shift workers, because this scenario gives rise to significant exposure to LAN.
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