Rural and urban older adults' perspectives of strength in their daily lives.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to understand older adults' perspectives of strength in their daily lives.

Background: Maintaining strength is important as the population ages and many older adults live into their 80s and 90s. Few studies have explored older adults' views of strength and its management as they age.

Older adults' perceptions of weakness and ageing.

Background: Age-related weakness, or sarcopenia, has been related to functional disability, falls, frailty and mortality. Although it is one of the most common symptoms older adults link to their functional abilities, to date, no studies have explored older adults' perceptions of weakness and its association with ageing.

Aims And Objectives: To understand the meaning of weakness for older adults' and their perceptions of its association with ageing.

Mobility adaptations of older adults: a secondary analysis.

The purpose of this secondary study was to describe the mobility adaptations of community-living older adults. The primary study, designed to understand weakness and aging from the perspective of older adults, revealed that older adults viewed weakness as a progression from inability to an end point of 'giving up,' which prompted the use of adaptation strategies to preserve mobility and to counter a self-identity of being weak. A qualitative descriptive design guided the primary study of 15 community-living older adults, who participated in in-depth interviews.

Evaluating first-year nursing students' ability to self-assess psychomotor skills using videotape.

Developing confidence in self-assessment is an important skill in becoming a self-regulated learner. This article describes the process undertaken by a group of educators of incorporating self-assessment in combination with psychomotor skill development with freshman students. Students were videotaped performing a wound-dressing change; the videotaping was immediately followed by a self-assessment of their performance using a faculty-generated checklist.

The experience of two practice education models: collaborative learning unit and preceptorship.

Twenty-two Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) graduates shared their perceptions one year after graduation on two practice education models they experienced during years three and four of their nursing education. The two models evaluated were collaborative learning units (CLU) and preceptorship. The participants described what was most important about each of these models in preparing them for graduate practice.