Confirming the validity and reliability of the Placement Evaluation Tool to evaluate midwifery practice placements (PET-Midwifery).

Problem: In Australia, program accreditation requirements include that education providers monitor and evaluate teaching and learning environments and provide evidence of outcomes being used to inform program quality improvement. Yet, closing this loop has proven challenging.

Background: The Australian National Placement Evaluation Centre (NPEC) functions to measure the quality of placements through student evaluations.

Addressing nursing student clinical placement poverty concerns: A discussion paper.

Background: Research indicates that more than two-thirds of Australian nursing students experience placement poverty and increased stress and anxiety because of the financial cost of completing clinical placements.

Aim: A contemporary discussion on the issue of the financial impact of placement experienced by Australian nursing students.

Design: Discursive.

Nursing student voices: A qualitative thematic synthesis of education elements supporting nursing students' clinical learning during placement.

Aim: to report a thematic synthesis of students' narratives in free text comments from a national quality survey of Australian nursing degree students' clinical placements.

Background: Nursing student evaluation surveys are submitted to the Australian National Placement Evaluation Centre. Students in 36 Australian nursing programs are included.

Competency domains for registered nurse preceptor professional development: Evidence from a modified e-Delphi study.

Aim: To develop an evidence-based framework of nurse preceptor competency domains and competency descriptors for use in nurse preceptor professional development.

Background: Nurse preceptors are registered nurses who coach, support and assess nursing students while simultaneously caring for patients. Working as both clinician and educator requires preceptors to develop additional skills.

Use and effectiveness of the arts for enhancing healthcare students' empathy skills: A mixed methods systematic review.

Objective: To identify, critically appraise and synthesise evidence of the use and effectiveness of the arts for enhancing pre-registration/prelicensure healthcare students' empathy skills.

Design: A systematic review of mixed methods literature.

Data Sources: A search of six electronic databases was conducted.

Core competencies for Registered Nurse preceptors: A mapping review of quantitative studies.

Aims: To review the contemporary international literature on nurse preceptor competencies and map the components and their descriptors.

Review Methods: A mapping review.

Data Sources: Articles reporting evidence-based and validated Registered Nurse (RN) preceptor competencies published between 2013 and 2022 were identified.

Students' evaluation of professional experience placement quality in a pre-registration nursing programme: A cross-sectional survey.

Aim: To evaluate the quality of student nurses' experiences and overall satisfaction with professional experience placements at a regional Australian University.

Background: Professional experience placements are a crucial component of pre-registration nursing programs. However, the absence of standardised approaches to assess placement quality has created uncertainty on what constitutes a high-quality placement from a student's perspective.

The PNG Midwifery Leadership Buddy Program: An evaluation.

Problem: Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a high rate of preventable maternal and neonatal deaths.

Background: Developing midwifery leadership is vital to addressing the current deficits in health outcomes for women and their babies. The PNG Midwifery Leadership Buddy Program responds to this need through leadership training and partnering of midwives across PNG and Australia.

Predictors of nursing student satisfaction as a key quality indicator of tertiary students' education experience: An integrative review.

Introduction: Student satisfaction is an important quality indicator in higher education, impacting student retention and institutional rankings. Healthcare education literature lacks factors related to student satisfaction. Reporting these elements might assist educators in curriculum design that helps to retain students.

Review article: Use of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure in the rating of emergency teams' non-technical skills: A mapping review.

The present study aims to explore the utility of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM) in relation to the enhancement of emergency team non-technical skills based on research conducted over the last decade. In this mapping review, a citation mining process identified 22 primary studies for inclusion, published between 2012 and 2022. It provides outcome data on emergency teams' non-technical skills following team training and/or real-life patient emergencies.

Evaluation of interprofessional student teams in the emergency department: opportunities and challenges.

Background: Interprofessional education opportunities are commonly university-based and require further development during clinical practice. Many clinical contexts offer the potential for meaningful learning of both collaborative and discipline-specific practice. The emergency department (ED) demands efficient teamwork, so presents a logical location for interprofessional learning.

Transformative learning theory applications in health professional and nursing education: An umbrella review.

Objectives: This review intended to synthesise existing evidence on the application of transformative learning theory in nursing education.

Design: An umbrella review, or review of reviews.

Data Sources: Six databases were systematically searched: CINAHL, Cochrane Reviews, Ebscohost, OVID, ProQuest Central, and PubMed.

Use and Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations in Nursing Student Education: An Umbrella Review.

Computer-based virtual simulation in nursing is a rapidly developing field. A summary of current research could benefit nursing faculty who are incorporating this pedagogy into online teaching due to social distancing requirements. This umbrella review aimed to explore the use and effectiveness of virtual simulations in prelicensure nursing education.

Virtual simulation studies in nursing education: A bibliometric analysis of the top 100 cited studies, 2021.

Objectives: Bibliometrics is an emerging science in nursing. Quantitative methods were used to conduct a bibliometric analysis of highly cited virtual simulation nursing education articles to describe rank order, breadth of topics and authorship patterns.

Design And Data Sources: A desktop analysis of publication performance was conducted using the Scopus database as the source of article citation data.

Digital serious games in developing nursing clinical competence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: This review aimed to synthesise evidence from experimental studies of the application of digital serious games in developing nursing clinical competence.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Eight databases were searched for randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies published in English from 2000 to 2021.

Using virtual simulation to teach evidence-based practice in nursing curricula: A rapid review.

Background: Virtual simulation is an interactive teaching and learning strategy used in undergraduate nursing student education, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Few published studies have reviewed the impact of virtual simulation as a strategy for teaching nursing students the elements of evidence-based practice.

Aim: To describe types of virtual simulation that are relevant to nursing student education and examine how these modalities are applied to teach elements of evidence-based practice.

What Helps, What Hinders? Undergraduate Nursing Students' Perceptions of Clinical Placements Based on a Thematic Synthesis of Literature.

Introduction: Clinical placements are a mandatory component of nursing students' education internationally. Despite clinical education being a key to nursing students' achievement of nursing competencies, few studies have reviewed students' narratives to describe their experiences of learning during clinical placement. Such studies may be important in offering a deeper insight into clinical learning experiences than quantitative surveys.

Nursing students' evaluation of clinical practice placements using the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher scale - A systematic review.

Objectives: To review undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of the quality of their clinical placement experiences by means of surveys conducted using the Clinical Learning Environment Supervision and Nurse Teacher questionnaire.

Design: Systematic review of English language studies published between 2014 and 2020, in any clinical setting, utilising data collected in the decade 2010 to 2020.

Data Sources: Structured searches were conducted in CinahlPlus, Ovid Medline, Scopus, PubMed and Google Scholar.

Nursing degree students' clinical placement experiences in Australia: A survey design.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate Australian nursing students' views of placements at seven tertiary education institutions with the use of the Placement Evaluation Tool (PET).

Background: Clinical placements are a core element of healthcare education programs around the world (Chuan and Barnett, 2012) with undergraduate nursing students required to complete a prescribed number of hours as part of their degree. The quality of nursing clinical placements varies with a range of positive and negative learning experiences.

The impact of web-based and face-to-face simulation education programs on nurses' response to patient deterioration: A multi-site interrupted time series study.

Background: Nurses' response to patient deterioration in acute hospital wards is a priority issue. Simulation education programs improve nurses' knowledge and confidence, but the translation into better care is largely unknown for both web based (WB) and face to face (F2F) simulation programs.

Aim: To measure the impact of simulation education on nurses' response to patient deterioration in acute medical ward settings, and to compare the impact of WB and F2F versions.

Umbrella review: Impact of registered nurses' continuing professional education informed by contemporary reviews of literature.

This paper aims to explore and classify studies of the impact and effectiveness of continuing professional education for registered nurses, using existing reviews of literature. Four healthcare databases were searched for publications from 2010 to July 2019 and electronic keywords searches were conducted. Umbrella review methodology was applied and Kirkpatrick's Four-Level Model of training evaluation was used to synthesise results and explicate the levels of educational impact.

Measuring the quality of nursing clinical placements and the development of the Placement Evaluation Tool (PET) in a mixed methods co-design project.

Background: The quality of nursing clinical placements has been found to vary. Placement evaluation tools for nursing students are available but lack contemporary reviews of clinical settings. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a feasible, valid and reliable clinical placement evaluation tool applicable to nursing student placements in Australia.

Maternal mental health and partner-delivered massage: A pilot study.

Background: Anxiety and depression affects many pregnant women. Massage may be beneficial for supporting mental wellbeing during this time. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of a partner-delivered relaxation massage program for pregnant women, and its impact on symptoms of antenatal anxiety, stress and depression.

Non-pharmacological depression therapies for older Chinese adults: A systematic review & meta-analysis.

Purpose: To conduct a systematic review of randomized controlled trials to evaluate the evidence for the use of non-pharmacological depression therapies in older Chinese adults.

Materials And Methods: The population was individuals of Chinese extraction over the age of 60 who meet the criteria for depression. The review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA).

Quality indicators for a community-based wound care centre: An integrative review.

The purpose of this review was to identify the role and contribution of community-based nurse-led wound care as a service delivery model. Centres increasingly respond proactively to assess and manage wounds at all stages - not only chronic wound care. We conducted an integrative review of literature, searching five databases, 2007-2018.