Assessing Student Perceptions of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Competencies in a Baccalaureate Curriculum.

Background: Nursing programs must ensure that graduate competencies in quality and patient safety are sufficient to meet practice needs. Student perceptions of the extent to which they acquired the knowledge, skills, and attitudes, as well as the importance and levels of preparedness associated with the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies, were measured.

Method: Using a descriptive cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 73 nursing students was surveyed using the QSEN Student Evaluation Survey tool.

Health-promotion behaviors of undergraduate nursing students: a survey analysis.

Aim: To examine health promotion behaviors and barriers to health promotion in traditional and nontraditional nursing students in an associate degree nursing program in the northeastern United States.

Background: Nursing students are exposed to concepts of health promotion in the nursing curriculum, but do not necessarily apply them to their own lives. Examining the variables affecting the health behaviors of nursing students may provide the information required to motivate lifestyle changes in this population.

Black parents' beliefs, attitudes, and HPV vaccine intentions.

This study examined the determinants of Black parents' intention to have their daughters receive the HPV vaccine. Relationships between behavioral beliefs regarding the HPV vaccine, HPV vaccine attitudes, and HPV vaccine intentions among Black parents were explored. A descriptive correlational design and mediation model were used to explain the hypothesized relationships.

Self-esteem and self-efficacy as predictors of attrition in associate degree nursing students.

There is a serious and growing shortage of nurses in the United States, and the high rate of student attrition from nursing programs has further added to this problem. The challenge for schools of nursing is to recruit increased numbers of qualified candidates into their programs and to determine ways to decrease the rate of student attrition. The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-esteem, self-efficacy, and life stressors were significantly related to student attrition in first-semester associate degree nursing students.

Peer tutoring program for academic success of returning nursing students.

High attrition rates among students in associate degree nursing programs are a concern for faculty, administrators, and students. Programs offering academic and emotional support for students at risk for failing a clinical course may decrease attrition rates and improve academic performance. A peer tutoring program was developed for returning nursing students who were unsuccessful in a previous clinical course.

Human papillomavirus health policy.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and the leading cause of cervical cancer. The Food and Drug Administration approved the first human papillomavirus vaccine and has recommended routine vaccination of 11 to 12 year old girls with catch-up vaccination for females 13 to 26 years of age. This primary prevention tool for cervical cancer could significantly reduce cervical cancer, but broad vaccination coverage will be required.