Nurturing ethical insight: exploring nursing students' journey to ethical competence.

Background: Ethical competence is a key competence in nursing and the development of the competence is a central part in nursing education. During clinical studies, nursing students face ethical problems that require them to apply and develop their ethical knowledge and skills. Little is known about how ethical competence evolves during students' initial clinical placements.

Educating the nurses of tomorrow: exploring first-year nursing students' reflections on a one-week senior peer-mentor supervised inspiration practice in nursing homes.

Background: Worldwide, the healthcare system stresses a severe deficit of nurses because of elevated levels of work-induced stress, burnout and turnover rates, as well as the ageing of the nursing workforce. The diminishing number of nursing students opting for a career in nursing older people has exacerbated this shortage. A determining factor in the choice of a career within the field of residential care for nursing students is educational institutions offering students learning opportunities with positive learning experiences.

Enhancing students learning experiences in nursing programmes: An integrated review.

Nursing as a profession is both fragmented and complex. The education setting is demanding, and prepared students are more clinically and academically robust. Therefore, nursing programmes should implement high-quality teaching based on the best available scientific evidence to improve learning quality and students' experience.

Students' observations of hand hygiene in nursing homes using the five moments of hand hygiene.

Aims And Objectives: To use nursing students to observe hand hygiene adherence in nursing homes and to explore whether the students' reflections after observing hand hygiene practices gives them a deeper understanding of the subject matter.

Background: Residents in nursing homes worldwide have low tolerance for healthcare-associated infections that require antibiotics, and hand hygiene is the single most effective action to reduce infections.

Design: Observational study using (a) World Health Organization's (WHO) "Five moments for hand hygiene" validated tool to record indications and adherence and (b) an exploratory study of individual reflection notes from students conducted during and after observations.

Developing supervision skills through peer learning partnership.

Oslo University College, Faculty of Nursing places undergraduate students in peer learning partnerships: 3rd year students as tutors, and 1st year students as tutees during practical skill learning. A study was designed to investigate this peer learning project. One of the research questions in particular on the role of the tutors: How do 3rd year nursing students carry out their role as supervisors for 1st year students in the skills laboratory? The study had an exploratory design.