The use of humour in nursing education: An integrative review of research literature.

Objectives: Humour is an integral part of communication and often used in education to support learning, build relationships, lessen stress, and create a positive environment. This paper presents results from an integrative review of literature that aimed to explore how humour is used in nursing education.

Design: Integrative literature review.

Nurses and undergraduate student nurses' experiences in collaborative clinical placement programs in acute hospitals: An integrative literature review.

Objectives: To identify, and critically review student, nurse clinician and clinical facilitator/educator experiences of collaborative clinical placement models in acute hospitals.

Design: An integrative review that followed Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) framework.

Data Sources: Studies published between 2009 and 2019 were identified via a comprehensive search of the following databases: CINAHL, OVID Medline, EMBASE, EMCARE, PsychINFO, Johanna Briggs Institute, ERIC and SCOPUS.

Registered nurses' experience of mentoring undergraduate nursing students in a rural context: a qualitative descriptive study.

: Registered nurses in a rural context are expected to support undergraduate students during clinical placement, however, they may experience challenges that are unique to the rural context. : To describe the registered nurses' experience of mentoring undergraduate nursing students on clinical placements in a rural context. : Qualitative descriptive study.

Enhancing nursing students' understanding of threshold concepts through the use of digital stories and a virtual community called 'Wiimali'.

Wiimali is a dynamic virtual community developed in 2010 and first implemented into our Bachelor of Nursing (BN) program in 2011. The word Wiimali comes from the Gumiluraai Aboriginal language. Wiimali and the digital stories it comprises were designed to engage nursing students and enhance their understanding of the threshold concepts integral to safe and effective nursing practice.