Nursing Students' Resilience and Intent to Work at the Bedside.

Aim: The primary purpose of this study was to explore relationships between self-efficacy, peer support, coping style, intent to work at the bedside, and resilience in nursing students.

Background: Resilience correlates with one-year retention at the bedside. Retention of bedside nurses improves patient outcomes.

An integrative review of simulation, senior practicum and readiness for practice.

Unlabelled: Readiness for practice (RFP) is essential as new nurses will practice in a nursing shortage climate, with high acuity patients and complex technology. Nurse educators are challenged to foster readiness for practice.

Aim: The aim of this integrative review was to explore the impact of simulation and senior practicum on graduating senior nursing students' readiness for practice.

A preliminary framework to guide implementation of The Flipped Classroom Method in nursing education.

Healthcare environments have increased in complexity over the last 30 years. However, educational methods to prepare nurses have remained virtually unchanged. To prepare nurses to practice in today's complex practice environment, there are calls for change and transformation in how nursing education is implemented.

A Strategy to Ensure Faculty Engagement When Assessing a Concept-Based Curriculum.

Background: The faculty of an undergraduate nursing program decided to undertake a major curriculum overhaul, transitioning from a curriculum based on the biomedical model to a concept-based curriculum. However, shortly after the new curriculum was implemented, faculty identified many issues with how and when the concepts were being taught.

Method: In response to the early implementation issues, a conceptual grid was developed to guide assessment of the new curriculum.

Using Innovative Teaching Strategies to Improve Outcomes in a Pharmacology Course.

It is often difficult to engage nursing students and keep their interest when teaching pharmacology. This article reports on an effective change from a lecture-only approach to teaching with the use of games and case studies in a baccalaureate nursing education program. Improvements have been noted in standardized test scores and student evaluations, and students are more engaged in the learning process.

Writing for publication: faculty development initiative using social learning theory.

Demonstrating scholarly competency is an expectation for nurse faculty. However, there is hesitancy among some faculty to fully engage in scholarly activities. To strengthen a school of nursing's culture of scholarship, a faculty development writing initiative based on Social Learning Theory was implemented.

Reflective journaling and development of cultural humility in students.

Cultural humility requires self-evaluation and the awareness that one's own culture is not the only or best one. Teaching health care providers to become culturally humble includes the development of critical thinking skills and the ability to reflect on practice. Journaling as a teaching strategy helps students develop these skills.

The effects of an advanced practice nurse led telephone intervention on outcomes of patients with heart failure.

This study sought to determine the effect of an advanced-practice-nurse (APN)-led telephone intervention on hospital readmissions, quality of life, and self-care behaviors (SCBs) of patients with heart failure (HF). Twenty participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental group that received the APN-led telephone intervention (ALTI) or a control group that received usual care in this pretest-posttest experimental study. The results of this study support the idea that an ALTI positively impacts outcomes of patient with HF, particularly by improving SCBs and decreasing hospital readmissions.