Aim: The primary purpose of this study was to explore relationships between self-efficacy, peer support, coping style, intent to work at the bedside, and resilience in nursing students.
Background: Resilience correlates with one-year retention at the bedside. Retention of bedside nurses improves patient outcomes.
The term appears in nursing education literature, but the definitions are inconsistent. Likewise, there is variation in the implementation of rigor in nursing curricula and courses. Nurse educators need a clear and shared understanding of rigor to prepare graduates to use critical thinking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudents who actively engage in reflection and receive guidance from faculty may assume accountability for learning and adjust study habits based on academic performance. The literature supports a need for nurse educators to develop theory-based strategies to integrate reflection and meaningful feedback in large didactic courses. The author in this paper describes the use of King's goal attainment theory and debriefing best practice guidelines to develop an asynchronous post-exam reflection teaching-learning strategy to promote student success in an undergraduate nursing pathophysiology course.
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