Nursing Students' Experience of a Poverty Simulation and Its Impact on Empathy and Social Justice Awareness: A Descriptive Qualitative Study.

Holistic nursing practice requires an understanding of the constraints of poverty as one of the social determinants of health. Future nurses need to be change agents for social justice. A descriptive, qualitative study was conducted to explore students' experience of the Missouri Association for Community Action Poverty Simulation (CAPS) and its impact on empathy and social justice awareness among a purposive sample of 56 sophomore baccalaureate nursing students at a public university in the Northeastern United States.

Evaluation of a Wellness Clinic in Assessing Knowledge Synthesis Among Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students.

Background: To enrich students' clinical learning experience and facilitate their ability to meet the baccalaureate outcomes, students rotate through a faculty-developed nursing wellness clinic. This unique setting was thought to promote knowledge synthesis of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) curriculum, yet it had not been formally evaluated.

Method: A qualitative study was designed to examine the experiences of senior BSN students who rotated through the wellness clinic setting.

Nursing Faculty Coaches: Uncovering a Hidden Resource for NCLEX-RN Success.

This article presents a nursing faculty department's strategy to empower nursing students identified as being at risk for not passing the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) on the first attempt while significantly increasing the nursing program's overall first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate. These students were identified as being at risk because of their low scores on standardized assessments with national norms predicting the likelihood of passing the NCLEX on the first attempt. This account details the NCLEX-RN Coaching Partnership as an exemplar to support nursing students' success through caring relationships with nursing faculty.