Constructing learning confidence through jigsaw, concept maps and group cooperative learning: A qualitative study.

Aim: This study aimed to develop students' learning confidence by increasing their motivation and satisfaction.

Background: Nursing students with limited healthcare work experience often have difficulty fully understanding and sympathizing with patients' medical concerns. They also worry about their theoretical knowledge diminishing with time.

Effectiveness of a virtual reality triage simulation program for nursing students: A mixed-methods study.

Aims: To examine the effectiveness of a virtual reality simulation (VRS) triage in improving students' learning motivation, attitudes, satisfaction and learning experiences in an emergency nursing course.

Background: VR facilitates the realization of clinical scenarios that are significant for teaching emergency nursing. Triage presents a unique challenge in emergency nursing courses, where practical learning opportunities are seldom available.

Exploring a learning model for knowledge integration and the development of critical thinking among nursing students with previous learning: a qualitative study protocol.

Students often struggle to apply their knowledge of bioscience to their care practice. Such knowledge is generally learned through remembering and understanding, but retention quickly fades. They also experience difficulty progressing to higher-order cognitive skills such as applying, analyzing, evaluating, and even creating, which are necessary to develop soft skills, such as critical thinking, in the care profession.

Adults' perspectives of experiences and preferences for end-of-life care.

Background: Decisions about end-of-life care often raise clinical and ethical challenges, especially when the person's capacity to contribute in the decision making at the end of life is limited.

Aim: This study aimed to explore Taiwanese adults' preferences associated with communication, healthcare planning, life-sustaining treatments and palliative care and experiences of end-of-life care.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 adults aged 20 years and above.

Undergraduate nurses' reflections on visual thinking learning to construct inductive reasoning through situated patient pictures: A mixed-method study.

Background/objective: Deductive logic has often been used to develop critical thinking. However, inductive logical thinking, essential to care decision-making, has yet to be emphasized. This study aimed to explore visual thinking learning among undergraduate nursing students by asking them to draw situated patient pictures in order to integrate theoretical knowledge and promote inductive logical thinking.

Professional Accountability of Caring for Patients with COVID-19: A Phenomenographic Study.

The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' care experiences for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic in Taiwan. The qualitative approach of phenomenography was used. Thirty-four nurses were recruited from two assigned hospitals in which COVID-19 patients were treated in Taiwan from July to May 2021.

Clinical Instructors' Perspectives on the Assessment of Clinical Knowledge of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Descriptive Phenomenological Approach.

This study aimed to determine clinical instructors' perceptions of the assessments used to evaluate the clinical knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach. Purposive sampling was used to recruit sixteen clinical instructors for semi-structured interviews between August and December 2019.

Factors Associated with Return Visits by Elders within 72 Hours of Discharge from the Emergency Department.

Elders have a higher rate of return visits to the emergency department (ED) than other patients. It is critical to understand the risk factors for return visits to the ED by elders. The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with return visits to the ED by elders.

An Exploration of Psychological Resilience among Undergraduate Nursing Students Undertaking an Adult Nursing Virtual Practicum during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Taiwan: A Qualitative Study.

This qualitative study aimed to explore the psychological resilience of undergraduate nursing students partaking in a virtual practicum during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Taiwan. The virtual practicum, a form of online learning, creates challenges compared to the traditional teaching-learning experience of an actual clinical placement. Exploring how students overcome learning difficulties and build resilience is necessary for a new learning environment or for future online learning.

Models of care for frail older persons who present to the emergency department: A scoping review of the literature.

Background: People aged ≥65 years comprise approximately 20 % of all emergency department (ED) presentations. Frailty amongst this cohort is common yet can go undetected.

Objective: To summarise the evidence regarding models of care for frail older people in the ED.

Family Caregivers' Experiences of Preventing Harm to Older People during Hospitalization: A Phenomenographic Study.

Hospital admission is associated with a high risk of harm, particularly for older people, and family members play a critical role in providing care. The aim of this study was to explore family caregivers' experiences in preventing harm to older people during hospitalization. The phenomenographic approach was applied.

The Outcomes of an Interprofessional Simulation Program for New Graduate Nurses.

This study explored the learning outcomes of an interprofessional simulation program for new graduate nurses during their training program. It was a single-group, pre-test and post-test research design. Ninety-three new graduate nurses participated in the study.

Effectiveness of the use of concept maps and simulated cases as a teaching-learning strategy in enhancing the learning confidence of baccalaureate nursing students: A qualitative approach.

Background: Didactic lectures and exam-oriented learning can lead to students becoming passive learners who rely on rote memory. This learning style negatively impacts their ability to cultivate the core nursing values and critical thinking.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of a concept mapping teaching-learning strategy on undergraduate nursing students' ability to integrate theoretical biosciences knowledge into care practice and on their skills in critical thinking and teamwork.

Exploring the experience of reflective writing among Taiwanese undergraduate nursing students: A qualitative study.

Background: Reflective learning plays an important role in students' professional and personal development. However, some nursing curricula provide insufficient opportunity for students to understand how to reflect and what reflection is.

Purpose: The study aimed to explore baccalaureate nursing students' experiences of reflective writing.

Role transition of newly graduated nurses: a qualitative study.

Background: Newly Graduated Nurses in different socio-cultural contexts confront dissimilar situations and influences on role transfer. It is important to understand how newly graduated nurses reconstruct their own professional concept of clinical nurses.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore how Taiwanese newly graduated nurses perceived their new role and the process through which they transition into the professional role.

Standard risk assessment forms help reduce preventable harm in older adult inpatients: A retrospective chart review study.

Aims: To examine nurse documentation of assessments using standard risk assessment forms in older inpatients, and to determine the value of such assessment.

Design: Cross-sectional retrospective chart review.

Methods: This retrospective review of risk evaluation documentation in patients' medical records focused on skin, continence, medical complications, nutrition, cognition, mobility, medications and pain.

Undergraduate nursing student academic resilience during medical surgical clinical practicum: A constructivist analysis of Taiwanese experience.

Background: Nursing students often experience a reality shock in the course of their practicums that can significantly impact their studies.

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the academic resilience of undergraduate nursing students during their Adulting Nursing practicums and identify protective factors to mitigate their impact.

Methods: The constructivist grounded theory approach enabled us to explore nursing students' academic resilience in their practicums.

How Emergency Nurses Develop Resilience in the Context of Workplace Violence: A Grounded Theory Study.

Purpose: To understand how emergency nurses develop resilience in the context of workplace violence.

Design: This study employed grounded theory methodology. Thirty nurses from three hospital emergency departments in Taiwan were interviewed between August and December 2018.

Enhancing reflection on medical and surgical nursing among nursing students: A participatory action research study.

Background: Medical and Surgical Nursing (MSN) is a core course in baccalaureate nursing programs that requires active and effective teaching and learning strategies to enhance students' engagement.

Objective: To develop and implement an effective learning process for students undertaking the MSN course.

Design: This participatory action research study used reflection as the center of action in the cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting and re-planning.

An enjoyable involvement: A qualitative study of short-term study abroad for nursing students.

This study aimed to explore the experiences of nursing students who have undertaken a short course in an overseas educational system to generate theoretical understanding of the experience of studying abroad. Learning in the health professions needs to considered in the context of globalization as a way of sharing knowledge and taking responsibility as world citizens. Studying abroad provides students with an opportunity to develop global health care competencies.

An Exploration of Motivation for Disaster Engagement and Its Related Factors among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Taiwan.

The purpose of the study was to explore the levels of and relationships between disaster nursing competence, anticipatory disaster stress, and the motivation for disaster engagement among undergraduate nursing students in Taiwan. A cross-sectional research design was applied. Using convenience sampling, 90 nursing students participated with an 86.

Workplace Violence Against Emergency Nurses in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Workplace violence against emergency nurses is common worldwide. This study aimed to gain a more thorough overview of the point prevalence of workplace violence against emergency nurses and the preventive measures used in emergency departments in Taiwan.

Methods: In this multicenter, descriptive, cross-sectional study, the questionnaire, Violence Against Nurses Working in Emergency Departments, was used to collect data from 407 nurses working at 5 emergency departments in Taiwan from May to October 2015.

Professional resilience among nurses working in an overcrowded emergency department in Taiwan.

Purpose: Professional resilience has become increasingly important for nurses in adverse work environments to reduce the negative results and increase the positive outcomes of stress. This study aimed to explore and understand the experiences of resilience among nurses in an overcrowded emergency department (ED) and increase knowledge about what nurses identified as protective factors, which may be useful for future planning.

Methods: A construction-grounded theory (CGT) approach was adopted.

Breaking through the dilemma of whether to continue nursing: Newly graduated nurses' experiences of work challenges.

Background: Newly graduated nurses (NGNs) often encounter unique work challenges.

Purpose: To discover Taiwanese NGNs' experiences of work challenges.

Method: An interpretive qualitative design was chosen.