Effect of NGN-Style Case Studies on Nursing Students' Anxiety and Self-Confidence With Clinical Decision-Making.

Background: The Next Generation National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) uses the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model in unfolding case studies to assess graduate nurses' clinical judgment.

Purpose: This study explored the impact of Next Generation NCLEX (NGN)-style case studies on baccalaureate nursing students' self-confidence and anxiety with clinical decision-making.

Methods: Seventy-six second-year baccalaureate nursing students participated in this 1-group convergent mixed-methods study.

Secondary Traumatic Stress in Nursing Students: An Integrative Review.

Background: Nurses have frequent interactions with traumatized individuals and may develop secondary traumatic stress (STS). Similarly, nursing students are at risk for STS development while completing clinical training.

Purpose: To critique and synthesize available research on the prevalence, severity, and experience of STS and its associated factors in prelicensure nursing students.

Clinical Faculty Orientation Practices in the United States: A Descriptive Study.

Background: Due to the nursing faculty shortage, expert clinical nurses are working as novice clinical instructors (CIs). Orientation is needed to prepare these nurses to teach; however, lack of evidence-based guidelines for orientation programs can lead to variability among institutions.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe clinical nursing faculty orientation practices in the United States.

Pilot Testing of Evidence-Based Symptom Management Telehealth Simulation-Based Experiences in an Oncology Nursing Seminar.

Telehealth simulation-based experiences (T-SBEs) offer one approach to prepare nursing students with the requisite skills to deliver oncology evidence-based symptom management (EBSM) using telecommunication technology. Fourteen baccalaureate nursing students participated in this one-group, pretest/posttest, convergent mixed-methods pilot study with questionnaire variant. Data were collected before and/or after two oncology EBSM T-SBEs using standardized participants.

Pilot Testing of Virtual Simulation-Based Experiences in an Oncology Nursing Seminar.

Background: The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic challenged nurse educators to develop teaching strategies to engage students in a virtual classroom. This pilot study examined the effect of virtually delivered video-recorded (VDVR) simulation-based experiences (SBEs) with standardized participants on the management of clinical emergencies in patients and families affected by cancer on nursing student learning outcomes.

Method: A pre- and posttest, one-group, convergent mixed-methods design with questionnaire variant was used.

Effect of Multiple-Patient Simulation on Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Anxiety and Self-confidence: A Pilot Study.

Background: Multiple-patient simulation (MPS) allows nursing students to develop leadership skills. Limited research examining student outcomes following MPS exists.

Purpose: This pilot study investigated the impact of MPS on (1) anxiety with transition to practice, (2) anxiety with clinical decision-making, (3) self-confidence with clinical decision-making, and (4) perceptions about MPS as a learning strategy.

Male nursing students' experiences during prelicensure education: An integrative review.

Background: Males represent less than 10 % of the global nursing workforce. To increase the recruitment and representation of male nurses, their experiences in prelicensure nursing education must be understood.

Objectives: The purpose of this integrative review was to explore literature related to male nursing students' experiences during prelicensure education.

Medication administration errors made among undergraduate nursing students: A need for change in teaching methods.

Background: Systems factors, such as interruptions, contribute to nursing errors. Gaining an understanding of what contributes to nursing student errors can inform educational strategies aimed to improve patient safety.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate: (a) within-subjects differences in error rates among nursing students during interrupted compared to uninterrupted simulated medication administration, (b) types of medication administration errors made by nursing students, and (c) nursing students' perceptions of their ability to independently administer medication.

The Effects of a Simulation-Based Experience with Standardized Participants on Learning and Clinical Decision-Making Related to Nursing Management of Oncologic Emergencies.

Upon entry-to-practice, graduate nurses must be able to effectively manage oncologic emergencies to ensure best patient and family outcomes. Thus, nurse educators must develop active teaching strategies to prepare prelicensure nursing students with appropriate nursing oncology knowledge and skills. The purposes of this study were to determine the effect of simulation-based experiences (SBEs) with standardized participants (SPs) involving a patient and family member on baccalaureate nursing students' confidence and competence, anxiety and self-confidence with clinical decision-making, and satisfaction and self-confidence in learning using SBEs related to management of oncologic emergencies within a seminar-style course.

The experience of baccalaureate clinical nursing faculty transitioning to emergency remote clinical teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future.

Background: Experiential clinical learning in undergraduate nursing education allows for fusion of nursing knowledge with practice to ensure the development of competent graduate nurses. The global COVID-19 pandemic necessitated an abrupt transition from in-person clinical educational experiences to emergency remote clinical teaching.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of baccalaureate nursing clinical faculty who transitioned from in-person clinical to emergency remote clinical teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020.

Standardized Patient Simulation in an Oncology Symptom Management Seminar-Style Course: Prelicensure Nursing Student Outcomes.

A critical role of the professional nurse is to manage symptoms associated with cancer and its treatments. Currently, prelicensure nursing curricula lack adequate oncology content and associated opportunities for clinical application. Thus, many graduate nurses do not possess the requisite knowledge and skills required to effectively manage cancer-related symptoms upon entry to practice.

Undergraduate Nursing Students and Management of Interruptions: Preparation of Students for Future Workplace Realities.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate interruption management strategies and associative cues used by nursing students when interrupted during simulated medication administration.

Background: Interruptions occur with high frequency in health care settings and are associated with increased medication errors and decreased task efficiency. The Altmann and Trafton memory for goals model, a cognitive-science model, proposes use of associative cues during an interruption to mitigate these negative effects.

The transition from nursing student to practicing nurse: An integrative review of transition to practice programs.

The transition from student to novice is a difficult time. Although the novice nurse is excited to start working, the nurse struggles with acclimating to a new role with new responsibilities and the need to reconcile disparities between what was taught in school and what is practiced in the real world. To lessen the impact of the transition experience, health care organizations have implemented transition-to-practice programs including orientations, preceptorships, and residencies.

TeamSTEPPS Curricular-Wide Integration: Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions.

Background: To promote safe patient care, nurses must work collaboratively with members of the interprofessional health care team.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to explore the effect of a curricular-wide integration of TeamSTEPPS training on baccalaureate nursing students' teamwork knowledge and attitudes and to describe students' perceptions of TeamSTEPPS curricular-wide integration.

Methods: In this quasi-experimental, mixed-methods study, the experimental group engaged in a curricular-wide integration of TeamSTEPPS throughout the baccalaureate nursing program, whereas the control group received no TeamSTEPPS training.

Simulated Participants as Health Care Providers: An Innovative Approach to Interprofessional Simulation.

With the increased attention to patient safety and quality care in health care, it is imperative that prelicensure health care provider students are taught to collaborate effectively to decrease medical errors. For this project, simulated participants were utilized as health care providers for a simulation in a stand-alone nursing school without affiliation to a medical or allied health school. Both simulated participants and students reacted positively to the experience.

Evaluating the transition from nursing student to practicing nurse: An integrative review.

The transition period from student nurse to novice nurse is a stressful time. Patient outcomes, healthcare organizations, the new nurse, and the nursing profession can be negatively affected if the transition from nursing student to novice nurse is not a positive and successful experience. Currently, there are numerous interventions aimed at easing the transition for the new nurse with just as many instruments used to evaluate the success of the interventions in doing so.

Nurses' Perceived Causes of Medication Administration Errors: A Qualitative Systematic Review.

Background: Medication administration errors (MAEs) are a critical patient safety issue. Nurses are often responsible for administering medication to patients, thus their perceptions of causes of errors can provide valuable guidance for the development of interventions aimed to mitigate errors. Quantitative research can overlook less overt causes; therefore, a qualitative systematic review was conducted to present a synthesis of qualitative evidence of nurses' perceived causes of MAEs.

Outcomes of TeamSTEPPS Training in Prelicensure Health Care Practitioner Programs: An Integrative Review.

Background: Patient safety, morbidity, and mortality are directly correlated with interprofessional collaboration among health care practitioners. TeamSTEPPS offers a standardized curriculum for interprofessional teamwork training that can be incorporated into prelicensure education. This article describes the current state of the science related to the quantitative literature exploring the outcomes of TeamSTEPPS training in prelicensure health care practitioner students' education.

Pre-licensure nursing students' attitudes toward clinical research, education research, and pedagogical research participation in the United States.

Background: Researchers worldwide have found that nursing students tend to have favorable attitudes toward clinical research. However, little is known about their attitudes toward education research and pedagogical research participation.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to: describe nursing students' attitudes toward clinical research, education research, and pedagogical research participation; explore the association of select demographic and academic factors with students' attitudes; and identify facilitators and barriers of pedagogical research participation.

Psychometric Evaluation of the Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Nursing Education Research Questionnaire.

Background And Purpose: While nursing students' attitudes about research are generally positive, little is known about their attitudes toward education research. The purpose of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the newly developed Nursing Students' Attitudes toward Nursing Education Research Questionnaire (NSANERQ).

Methods: The 25-item NSANERQ was adapted from an existing tool measuring nursing students' attitudes toward nursing research.

Nonclinical Transition-to-Practice Courses: A Review of Course Content.

Background: Both clinical and nonclinical transition-to-practice courses have been offered to facilitate the transition from student to novice nurse.

Problem: Nonclinical transition-to-practice courses are less widely discussed in the literature; thus, their content and effectiveness have not been examined.

Approach: Academic institutions with baccalaureate nursing programs were surveyed to determine if they offered a nonclinical transition-to-practice course and to identify the associated content.

Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Nursing Education Research and Participation in Pedagogical Research.

Background: Nursing students overall have positive attitudes toward research, but no studies have explored students' attitudes toward education research or pedagogical research participation.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to explore nursing students' attitudes toward research in general, education research, and participation as subjects in pedagogical research; describe the relationships among these attitudes; and identify associated factors.

Methods: A mixed-methods, descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used.

Restrictions on Nursing Students' Electronic Health Information Access.

Background: Restrictions on students' use of electronic health information have been anecdotally reported as a threat to clinical learning, development of informatics competency, and adherence to personal health information privacy laws. However, evidence on which informatics education and policy strategies can be designed is lacking.

Purpose: This study describes the scope of nursing students' access to and use of electronic health information systems as reported by clinical instructors.

Nursing students' attitudes toward research: An integrative review.

Objective: This paper describes the state of the science related to undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward research.

Design: The updated integrative review method was used to systematically examine the published nursing literature about students' attitudes toward nursing research.

Data Sources: Data sources for this review included: the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, and Education Resources Information Center databases.

Simulation Strategies Used in the Transition From Expert Clinician to Novice Educator.

As the demand for nurses increases across the United States, nursing programs are challenged to increase enrollment. Thus, expert clinicians without teaching experience are often hired as clinical faculty. Using simulation to train novice clinical faculty is one method to bolster the clinical faculty workforce.