Teaching Psychomotor Skills in Undergraduate Nursing Education: An Integrative Review.

Background: Psychomotor skills, a cognitive and fine motor process, are an essential component to undergraduate nursing education. Currently, no national guidelines exist to guide nursing programs on the best way to educate students to ensure competent and safe practice of psycho-motor skills in the clinical setting. This review sought to determine what methods of education, training, and practice of psychomotor skills enhanced psychomotor skill competency in undergraduate nursing students.

The Student Voice: Perceptions of Durable Learning.

Background: Durable learning is the teaching/learning methods that result in retained knowledge that can be transferred to practice. There is limited research on durable learning in nursing education (NE).

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the perceptions of how learners acquire and retain knowledge.

Implementation of a Competency-Based Clinical Tracking Document in an Undergraduate Nursing Program.

New nurse graduates are ill prepared to fulfill the roles and responsibilities of being competent, practice-ready registered nurses. This article describes one college of nursing's journey in the creation of a clinical tracking document (CTD) to track, in real time, essential subbehavior actions that assist students in achieving the four main competencies of assessment, communication, critical thinking, and safety listed on the Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument. The CTD is an innovative tracking tool used to ensure students are practice-ready and competent upon completion of their nursing program.

Durable Learning Strategies in Nursing Education: State-of-the-Evidence Review.

Background: Health professions (HP) students must achieve durable learning (DL) to transfer and apply knowledge from the classroom to the clinical setting. This review examines the state of the science of classroom-based DL in HP.

Method: The Joanna Briggs Systematic Review Methodology was used.

Health-Related Data Sources Accessible to Health Researchers From the US Government: Mapping Review.

Background: Big data from large, government-sponsored surveys and data sets offers researchers opportunities to conduct population-based studies of important health issues in the United States, as well as develop preliminary data to support proposed future work. Yet, navigating these national data sources is challenging. Despite the widespread availability of national data, there is little guidance for researchers on how to access and evaluate the use of these resources.

The relaxation response: Influence on psychological and physiological responses in patients with COPD.

Unlabelled: In patients with COPD, distress is significantly prevalent and can have adverse psychological and physiological effects. The Relaxation Response Meditation Technique (RRMT), a technique that elicits the relaxation response, was developed by Dr. Herbert Benson to counter the fight-or-flight response to decrease psychological and physiological effects.