Publications by authors named "H OEsp Egilsdottir"

Background: Task shifting is an approach where specific tasks are transferred, when convenient, from health workers with high qualifications to health workers with less training and lower qualifications. This approach is mainly used to utilize the available human resources for health. Tasks that are traditionally linked to the physician role have increasingly been transferred to registered nurses during the last decade.

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Objectives: Simulation is an important learning activity in nursing education. There is little knowledge about dialogue and communication between students and facilitators in a virtual simulation setting. The current study, conducted in Norway, explores the dialogic teaching approaches applied by facilitators in a virtual classroom and adapt an analytic tool from a physical classroom in lower education to a virtual classroom in higher education.

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Objective: To systematically map existing research regarding the reflective feedback in virtual simulation in undergraduate nursing education.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted based on the Arksey and O'Malley framework and the PRISMA-ScR.

Results: We included 41 studies from 15 different countries.

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Aims: To explore in-depth nurses' use and further development of assessment skills in different nursing contexts in the first 2 years after graduation, and factors that influenced their use and development of assessment skills.

Design: The study had explorative qualitative design.

Methods: Eight nurses who previously had been interviewed about their learning of physical assessment skills in clinical rotation as students participated in this follow-up study.

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Background: The quality of nursing care in different healthcare contexts can be associated with the level of available nursing competence. Physical assessment skills are vital in nurses' assessment of patient care needs. However, in nursing education, using physical assessment skills is challenging for nursing students who struggle to apply these skills comprehensively in a clinical rotation.

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