'I'm a bit of an invisible worker' - Health care and social sector students' experiences of casual and temporary agency work.

Objectives: In the wake of national and global personnel shortages, it is becoming increasingly common for students to undertake casual and temporary agency work in the health care and social sectors. This phenomenon can have both advantages and disadvantages for these workers. The objective of this study was to describe health care and social sector students' experiences of such work.

Design-based research in designing the model for educating simulation facilitators.

The purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of design-based research, its appropriateness in creating education-based models, and to describe the process of developing such a model. The model was designed as part of the Nurse Educator Simulation based learning project, funded by the EU's Lifelong Learning program (2013-1-DK1-LEO05-07053). The project partners were VIA University College, Denmark, the University of Huddersfield, UK and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

Towards identifying nurse educator competencies required for simulation-based learning: A systemised rapid review and synthesis.

Objectives: This paper presents the results of a systemised rapid review and synthesis of the literature undertaken to identify competencies required by nurse educators to facilitate simulation-based learning (SBL).

Design: An international collaboration undertook a protocol-based search, retrieval and critical review.

Data Sources: Web of Science, PubMed, CINAHL Plus, PsycInfo, ERIC, the Cochrane Library and Science Direct.

Factors influencing partnerships between higher education and healthcare.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the factors influencing partnerships between higher education and healthcare.

Background: Partnerships have often been studied as organisations' internal processes or multi-professional team activities. However, there has been less research on the partnership as a phenomenon between organisations and, until now, the research has mainly focused on experiences in the US and the UK.

Journal club intervention in promoting evidence-based nursing: perceptions of nursing students.

This study focused on nursing journal clubs as an intervention in promoting evidence-based nursing. Nursing journal clubs refer to arranged meetings where nurses convene to discuss the use of research knowledge in nursing practice. Researchers and directors of a university hospital planned the intervention.

Patient knowledge of atrial fibrillation: 3-month follow-up after an emergency room visit.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to assess patient knowledge about atrial fibrillation, its determinants and evolution during 3 months after a visit to the emergency room.

Background: Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common single diagnoses in the emergency room, and care often results in treatment modifications after which most patients are discharged home.

Method: A knowledge test was developed to measure patients' knowledge of atrial fibrillation.

Nursing students in clinical practice--developing a model for clinical supervision.

The aim of this study was to develop a model for clinical supervision to promote the clinical practice of nursing students. The study was implemented in Finland and it was carried out in three phases. Firstly, data were collected by means of a literature review and focus group interviews.