Simulation as a learning strategy: supporting undergraduate nursing students with disabilities.

Aims And Objectives: To promote simulation as a learning strategy to support undergraduate nursing students with disabilities.

Background: Supporting undergraduate nursing students with disabilities has gained further momentum because of amendments to the Disability Discrimination Act in 2009. Providers of higher education must now ensure proactive steps to prevent discrimination against students with a disability are implemented to assist in course progression.

Competency measurements: testing convergent validity for two measures.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to investigate whether the Australian National Competency Standards for Registered Nurses demonstrate correlations with the Finnish Nurse Competency Scale.

Background: Competency assessment has become popular as a key regulatory requirement and performance indicator. The term competency, however, does not have a globally accepted definition and this has the potential to create controversy, ambiguity and confusion.

Relating new graduate nurse competence to frequency of use.

The healthcare workplace can be a stress-laden environment for new graduates and job performance indicators are an important sign of developing confidence and expertise that will lead to improved patient outcomes. What is not evident from nursing studies is whether new graduate nurse competencies relate to the frequency of their use. This study sought to determine the relationship between perceived nursing competence and self-assessed frequency of use by new graduate nurses.

Psychometric properties of the Australian nurse competency 2000 standards.

Background: The Australian Nursing Competency Incorporated (ANCI) 2000 standards provide a standardised framework of accepted professional standards for the registered nurse.

Aim: The study aimed to examine the psychometric properties of the ANCI 2000 national competency standards for measuring nursing competence in new graduate nurses.

Research Design And Methods: One hundred and sixteen new graduated nurses from three metropolitan public hospitals were surveyed.

New graduate nurse self-concept and retention: a longitudinal survey.

Graduate nurse attrition is an increasing phenomenon within a world of decreasing nursing numbers. The newly developed nursing self-concept of the graduate nurse may provide a key indicator for predicting graduate retention. This study explores the development of multiple dimensions of nursing self-concept and examines their relationship to graduate nurse retention plans.