The sum of all parts: an Australian experience in improving clinical partnerships.

Aim: To create a collaborative partnership between the education provider (University) and the placement provider (Hospital) to facilitate the identification and development of strategies to improve capacity and capability for nursing clinical placements. This partnership was labelled (TULIP) to identify the two partners and it purpose as a learning investment project.

Background: The quality of clinical learning is interdependent on the collaborative clinical health partnerships between Hospital, University, preceptors/facilitators and students.

Tool for Evaluating the Ways Nurses Assess Pain (TENAP): psychometric properties assessment.

Elderly people with cognitive impairment are at risk for under-treatment of pain due to their inability to communicate. Poor knowledge and attitudes of nurses toward pain in this population may result in inadequate pain assessment. This study used a descriptive correlational design to develop and validate a tool to assess nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and reported practice of pain assessment in cognitively impaired elderly patients in acute care settings.

Effectiveness of educational interventions to promote oral hypoglycaemic adherence in adults with Type 2 diabetes: a systematic review.

Executive Summary: Background As a chronic condition, the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is increasing worldwide and adherence to oral medications, an essential component of self-management, has been shown to improve glycaemic control. However compliance with oral medication adherence remains poor. Educating people with Type 2 diabetes is an important strategy to enhance self-management ability, including medication-taking behaviour.

RN as gatekeeper: Student understanding of the RN buddy role in clinical practice experience.

Students may be informally buddied with registered nurses (RNs), during their clinical experience. This paper describes one component of a larger phenomenographic study that explored the qualitatively different ways students understand the RN buddy role during clinical experience and the implications of this understanding for student learning. The perception of the RN as gatekeeper was an unexpected finding and is the focus of this report.

RN as gatekeeper: gatekeeping as monitoring and supervision.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the variation of ways that students understand the informal or buddy registered nurse role during facilitated clinical experience, and to identify the relationship between student learning and student understanding and experience of the registered nurse role during clinical experience.

Background: Student clinical experience is an essential aspect of all undergraduate nursing programs. Students expect registered nurses to supervise and support them and to provide learning experiences during clinical placement.

Assessing psychometric properties of scales: a case study.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to examine the construct validity of The Nursing Students' Attitudes and Awareness of Research and Development within Nursing Scale.

Background: The validity of instruments is critical in ensuring that data collected are sound and that the data measures what it purports to measure. When a new instrument is used in a different population or when it has been modified, it is useful to re-examine the construct validity of the instrument.

RN as gatekeeper: student understanding of the RN buddy role in clinical practice experience.

Students may be informally buddied with registered nurses (RNs), during their clinical experience. This paper describes one component of a larger phenomenographic study that explored the qualitatively different ways students understand the RN buddy role during clinical experience and the implications of this understanding for student learning. The perception of the RN as gatekeeper was an unexpected finding and is the focus of this report.

A phenomenographic study of registered nurses' understanding of their role in student learning--an Australian perspective.

Background: Students may be 'buddied' with registered nurses during their clinical experience since the designated clinical facilitator cannot be available for each student at all times. Little is known about the way registered nurses understand this informal role.

Objectives: The rationale for this study was to gain an insight of the variation of understanding registered nurses have of their role with students, and explored the qualitatively different ways registered nurses perceive their role with students on clinical experience and the implications of this understanding for student learning.

Teaching people with Parkinson's disease about their medication.

PD is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting an estimated 78,000 Australians. Predominantly it affects older people, although or younger. Medications to treat PD are aimed at controlling symptoms as there is no known cure.