Publications by authors named "Jacoline Sommer Albert"

Background: Nursing students' first clinical experience can be a challenging. Reviews focused on student struggles about readiness, ethical decision making, gender discrimination, and challenges to transcultural care. However, no reviews synthesized students' struggles and strategies during their first clinical experience.

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Background: The ethical and moral complexities are inherent to nursing practice. Ethical dilemmas of professional nurses and nursing students' ethical concerns with their preceptors are well-documented. No reviews have synthesized students' ethical dilemmas regarding patient care.

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The global adult lifetime risk of maternal mortality is 1 in 180; in Pakistan, it is 1 in 170; in developed regions, 1 in 4,900 (Alkema et al., 2016; Filippi, Chou, Ronsmans, Graham, & Say, 2016; World Health Organization [WHO], 2015). The differences in maternal mortality between developed and developing countries are mainly due to the quality of antenatal care (ANC) available in the two groups of countries.

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Background: Organizational culture affects nurse educators' psychological empowerment. Limited research exists on the organizational culture and psychological empowerment in nursing educational environments and about the type of organizational factors affecting nurse educators' psychological empowerment.

Aim: To explore nurse educators' perceived organizational factors that affect their psychological empowerment.

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Background: Nurse educators are required to equip students with adequate theoretical and practical knowledge to provide effective nursing care. Limited studies have explored educators' challenges while teaching students. Existing studies are limited because of small sample, overreliance on qualitative approaches, and unreliable instruments that have not been tested.

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