Nurses' perceptions of and participation in continuing nursing education: results from a study of psychiatric hospital nurses in Bahrain.

Background: Although many psychiatric hospital nurses in Bahrain attend at least one continuing nursing education (CNE) activity per year, many others do not. This study explored these nurses' perceptions of CNE and factors that promote or hinder participation in CNE activities.

Methods: A descriptive design was used to gather data from a convenience sample of 200 nurses working at the psychiatric hospital in Bahrain.

Helping busy educators become gero-savvy: an approach to developing faculty geriatric expertise.

Integrating geriatric competencies into an entry-level nursing curriculum is more than identifying content to be added. The knowledge and ability of faculty to teach these competencies are another important consideration as well as gaining Board of Registered Nursing faculty approval. The authors present an innovative remediation plan that addresses competency in both theory and practice to assist faculty to become gero-savvy.

Change, chaos, adaptation: the effects of leadership on a work group.

As nurses, we are very familiar with the environmental factors associated with change, the impact of chaos on working relationships, and the general milieu of a nursing unit. This story relates how a student in a leadership practicum was encouraged to look at change through an organizational lens when the leadership dynamics changed in a work group. The Roy Adaptation Model and chaos theory were applied as frameworks for this assessment as a way to organize and foster learning.