The adoption of a new undergraduate nursing curriculum granted the opportunity to develop a new method for teaching growth and development. The Pediatric Play Project was designed as part of clinical experience where students explored principles of growth and development by designing a toy or play activity for a hospitalized pediatric patient. Students exhibited immense creativity while meeting learning outcomes, and the project received positive feedback from students and faculty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an innovative teaching pedagogy involving faculty collaboration and student co-learning across global partner schools. Guided by the cross-cultural alignment model, the purpose of this educational research project was to analyze the impact of COIL on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nursing students in two global partner schools and to determine if groups of students were impacted differently.
Methods: Students engaged in synchronous and asynchronous learning sessions using a secure digital platform over several weeks.
Background: The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experience of Hispanic/Latino nursing students, as shared by new graduates of baccalaureate nursing programs in the southeastern United States.
Method: This research used descriptive phenomenology with in-depth, private, semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using inductive analysis methods consistent with Braun and Clarke.
Background: This is a secondary data analysis of an original study describing the lived experiences of Hispanic/Latinx nursing students as they acculturate into the profession of nursing.
Method: The original study described the experiences of 11 Hispanic/Latinx new graduates from three baccalaureate nursing programs in the southeastern United States. A secondary data analysis using a theoretical thematic analytical approach with data gathered in the original study was done to determine the utility of the theory of cultural marginality in understanding these student experiences.
Background: Increasing recruitment and retention of Hispanic/Latino nursing students is urgently needed to increase the diversity of the nursing profession and address persisting health disparities.
Purpose: This integrative review describes current knowledge of Hispanic/Latino prelicensure nursing student and new graduate experiences.
Methods: A comprehensive literature review was performed using several online databases.
J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Nurs
November 2018
Topic: Siblings of children with cancer experience extraordinary responses and changes to their lives over the course of their family's cancer journey.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conduct an integrative literature review to synthesize and analyze relevant findings related to the siblings' experiences of childhood cancer.
Sources Used: CINAHL, PubMed, Embase, MEDLINE, and PsycINFO were searched using the key terms: "sibling*" AND "pediatric*" AND "cancer" AND "experienc*" OR "experience*.