Predisposing Factors of Intercultural Sensitivity Among Nursing Students: A Predictive Correlational Design.

Introduction: Intercultural sensitivity in health care improves health care quality due to effective communication, intervention, and increased satisfaction. The present study aimed to compare the intercultural sensitivity of undergraduate nursing students in two different countries and identify predisposing factors of intercultural sensitivity.

Methods: A predictive correlational study was conducted with 980 undergraduate nursing students at a university in Turkey and the United States.

Nursing education stress and coping behaviors in Turkish and the United States nursing students: A descriptive study.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to compare nursing education stress and coping behaviors of nursing students in two different countries.

Background: Nursing students face with stress factors affecting academic performance during nursing education. Coping strategies can help students manage their stress levels.

Professional values and career choice of nursing students.

Background And Aim: Professional values are abstract and general behavioral principles that provide basic standards to judge aims and actions, and these principles are formed by strong emotional loyalty of members of the profession. Research was conducted to compare the career choice and professional values of nursing students at two universities in the upper Midwest of the United States and in the middle of Turkey.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive and comparative design was used.

Overcoming barriers to implementing evidence-based practice: a collaboration between academics and practice.

This article describes two collaborative paired student-preceptor efforts. One project resulted in the implementation of a hospital-wide oral care protocol, and the second enhanced the admission assessment process for adult patients at risk for respiratory compromise after sedation and/or receipt of narcotic analgesia. Recommendations for staff development are addressed.

Collaborative simulation project to teach scope of practice.

Nursing faculty from three schools of nursing collaborated to develop a simulation project to enable nursing students to practice and apply principles, leadership, and culturally competent care. A simulated five-bed hospital was created where students were assigned to teams to plan and care for these patients. After the simulation exercise, students participated in a debriefing session in which they reflected on their performance.

Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation.

National guidelines and professional organizations have recommended allowing family presence during resuscitation and bedside invasive procedures. Studies found that only 5% of critical care units have written policies. Periodic requests by family members prompted the creation of a task force, including nurses, physicians, and respiratory therapists, to develop this controversial policy.

Creating a home care simulation laboratory.

Simulation laboratories are being created to prepare students and new staff for clinical experiences. With puppets and garage sale objects, a life-in-home laboratory was developed to meet the needs of those first encountering a home care situation.

Nursing student caring behaviors during blood pressure measurement.

The purpose of this multisite, nonexperimental study was to examine, using a repeated measures design, the effects of a teaching intervention designed to promote caring behaviors as students learn the psychomotor skill of blood pressure measurement. Watson's theory of human caring and a combination of cognitive and connectionist learning theories were used as the organizing construct. Baccalaureate nursing student participants were videotaped and evaluated at two points in time while performing the psychomotor skill of blood pressure measurement on a role-player.

Adapting to a prospective payment system: a research study of visiting nurses.

Individual interviews were conducted with twelve visiting home care nurses in three home care agencies in a Midwest state to determine how they adapted to the Prospective Payment System (PPS) of 2000. Strategies used by the nurses included organization, understanding the documentation, financial awareness, greater emphasis on discharge planning, patient accountability, greater emphasis on teaching, and team work.