Publications by authors named "Kamala M Devi"
Background: Simulation-based learning has become an integral part of the nursing curriculum, allowing students to acquire clinical knowledge and relevant skills and apply them to real-life clinical encounters. However, little is known about the best practices in palliative and end-of-life care simulations.
Objective: To explore the perspectives and learning experiences of undergraduate nursing students participating in a newly developed advanced practice nurse-led palliative and end-of-life care simulation program.
Article Synopsis
- Nursing students often feel unprepared for palliative and end-of-life care, which makes it hard for them to help patients and their families.
- A study was done to create a special practice program to help these students learn and improve their skills in this area.
- Results showed that the students got better at understanding palliative care and improved their emotional intelligence, but there wasn’t much change in their ability to reflect on what they learned.
Objective: To examine the effectiveness of a web-based clinical pedagogy program on nurse preceptors' clinical teaching competency, self-efficacy, and attitudes toward web-based learning in comparison to face-to-face course.
Background: Preceptorship is a dynamic educational process that requires designing, and implementing various teaching strategies, evaluation, assessment and feedback. Web-based learning has been recognized as an effective learning approach for nursing professional development.
Nurse preceptors are key stakeholders in providing quality clinical education. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of nurse preceptors on a web-based clinical pedagogy program and clinical teaching. A descriptive qualitative design was adopted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This qualitative review aims to provide a clearer understanding of concerns general surgery (GS) patients face in the preoperative period.
Methods: Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science were searched for articles describing the preoperative concerns of GS patients. Qualitative and mixed method studies were included.
Executive Summary: Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. With increasing numbers of women surviving breast cancer, there is a need to move beyond the traditional ways of evaluating clinical outcomes and include patient-based outcomes such as the quality of life.Objectives To integrate and summarise the best evidence related to the quality of life of women diagnosed with breast cancer during and up to ten years after treatment for breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nursing shortage is a global issue that which affects oncology nursing. Oncology nurses are more prone to experience job dissatisfaction, stress and burnout when they work in units with poor staffing. There is thus a need for greater understanding of the relationship between the nursing shortage and nursing outcomes in oncology/haematology settings.
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