Interprofessional Team-Based Learning: A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Nursing and Physiotherapy Students.

Traditional discipline-specific training has limitations in facilitating inter-professional communication and collaboration. To address this issue, two local universities in Hong Kong launched an interprofessional team-based learning program to allow the undergraduate healthcare students to form teams and experience collaborative problem-solving. This study aimed to evaluate the experiences of nursing and physiotherapy undergraduates following interprofessional learning activities.

Clinical application analysis of continuing nursing in nursing service for diabetic patients.

Unlabelled: The research is to establish a Continuing Nursing Project after discharge which conforming to the actual conditions of our country and explore whether such Continuing Nursing Project could effectively improve therapy compliance and blood glucose control of diabetic patients.

Methods: mainly analyzing pathological mechanisms of diabetic patients and exploring the clinical effect and the complication after implementing Continuing Nursing to patients.

Results: after implementing Continuing Nursing, the diabetic patients could be better at controlling their diet, the drug usage rate and exercise rate have been improved significantly, complication rate have been decreased and the clinical effect is remarkable.

Effects of a health-social partnership transitional program on hospital readmission: a randomized controlled trial.

Hospital readmission is an indicator of care quality. Studies have been conducted to test whether post-discharge transitional care programs can reduce hospital readmission, but results are not conclusive. The contemporary development of post-discharge support advocates a health and social partnership approach.

Framework for adopting a problem-based learning approach in a simulated clinical setting.

The problem-based learning (PBL) approach applied in the clinical setting is different from that applied in the classroom setting. This study analyzed a learning and teaching episode in a simulated clinical situation using the PBL approach. Conversation analysis was used to examine the scenario.

The issue of death and dying: employing problem-based learning in nursing education.

Caring for dying patients can be an emotionally painful, distressing and sometimes threatening experience for nurses as the illness is incurable and death is imminent. The avoidance of discussion of dying in the presence of patients in Chinese culture further increases nurses' anxiety. The purpose of this article is to provide an example of how nurses can be helped when caring for dying patients by using a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in Hong Kong.