Publications by authors named "Rowena L Escolar-Chua"
Background: Pharmacology is a vital course in nursing involving numerous concepts, making it challenging for educators and students to teach and learn the course, respectively. As YouTube videos become a powerful academic resource in understanding challenging courses, most studies demonstrate that online educational videos effectively improve students' learning process. However, what makes these videos effective in teaching has yet to be discovered.
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- The study highlights that nursing students in community health settings face moral distress due to ethical dilemmas, mostly stemming from unprofessional behaviors of healthcare workers and differing community values.
- A descriptive qualitative design was used, involving 14 senior nursing students who shared their experiences from their Community Health Nursing course and community stays.
- The findings indicate a need for nursing educators to raise awareness of these morally distressing situations, helping students better prepare for real-world challenges in healthcare.
Background: Moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral courage among healthcare professionals have been explored considerably in recent years. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring these topics among baccalaureate nursing students.
Aim/objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between and among moral distress, moral sensitivity, and moral courage of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students.
The role of clinical instructors in preparing student nurses for the realities and dynamics of clinical practice cannot be underestimated. Previous literature has identified scaffolding as a diagnostic tool that enables both supervisor and learner to recognize knowledge-in-waiting and knowledge-in-use (Spouse, 1998). The pivotal role of scaffolding in the teaching-learning process cannot be underestimated.
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