Behind the screen: Understanding national support for a foreign investment screening mechanism in the European Union.

Unlabelled: What determines national preferences for institutionalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) screening? Over the past decade, advanced economies worldwide have tightened their national investment screening mechanisms (ISMs). In March 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted its first common FDI screening framework. This article explores variations in Member State preferences for the creation and nature of a pan-European screening framework.

Nursing students' view of critical thinking as 'Own thinking, searching for truth, and cultural influences'.

Introduction: Students should enhance their ability to think critically as part of a process of whole-person development.

Background: Within nursing education, students should employ critical thinking to ensure quality of patient care and patient safety.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of nursing students on critical thinking.

Academic advising in undergraduate education: A systematic review.

Objectives: The aim of this review is to describe academic advising schemes at the undergraduate level, examine the perspectives of advisors and advisees towards the schemes, and explore the implications of academic advising in undergraduate and nursing education.

Design: A systematic review was conducted of the protocol of PRISMA-P.

Data Sources: Six electronic databases were searched for journal articles, namely, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, ERIC, Medline, Teacher Reference Center, and Scopus.

Curriculum design and attrition among undergraduate nursing students: A systematic review.

Attrition rates among nursing students are a global issue, and a possible factor in current nursing shortages. Numerous studies have been conducted to determine why students drop out of nursing programmes. The limitations of previous studies have included overly small sample sizes, being largely descriptive, and not focusing on attrition as an outcome.

Self-Stigma Reduction Interventions for People Living with HIV/AIDS and Their Families: A Systematic Review.

Stigma is a primary concern for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS (PLWHA), and has great impact on their and their family members' health. While previous reviews have largely focused on the public stigma, this systematic review aims to evaluate the impact of HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related self-stigma reduction interventions among PLWHA and their families. A literature search using eight databases found 23 studies meeting the inclusion criteria.

Conflicting identities between sex workers and motherhood: A systematic review.

Being a mother is a traditional and central role for women. However, due to criminalization, social stigma and marginalized lifestyles, female sex workers (FSWs) may encounter disadvantages and social inequality. The aim of this review was to synthesize the results of studies focused on the challenges that FSWs face in negotiating their maternal identity with their stigmatized identity as sex workers.

Metaphorical interpretations of the educator-student relationship: An innovation in nursing educational research.

Previous research has shown that collecting and analysing metaphors is a useful strategy in seeking data that are difficult to collect via verbal interviews or that cannot be represented by statistics. This study explored nursing students' perceptions of the educator-student relationship using metaphorical interpretation. A qualitative study with a personal essay approach was adopted.

A qualitative study on communication between nursing students and the family members of patients.

Background: When caring for a family as a unit, it is as crucial to communicate with the family members of a patient as it is with the patient. However, there is a lack of research on the views of nursing students on communicating with the family members of patients, and little has been mentioned in the nursing curriculum on this topic.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore nursing students' experiences of communicating with the family members of patients.

The Socio-Ecological Model Approach to Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to the Accessing of Health Services by Sex Workers: A Systematic Review.

Inequities in accessing health care persist among sex workers. The purpose of the review is to understand the health-seeking behaviours of sex workers and their access to health care services with socio-ecological model. Of 3852 citations screened, 30 met the inclusion criteria for this review.

A qualitative study on feedback provided by students in nurse education.

Background: This study aims to help nurse educators/academics understand the perspectives and expectations of students providing their feedback to educators about teaching performance and subject quality.

Aim: The aim of this study is to reveal students' voices regarding their feedback in nurse education in order to shed light on how the current student feedback practice may be modified.

Design: A qualitative study using focus group inquiry.

A qualitative study on using concept maps in problem-based learning.

Background: The visual arts, including concept maps, have been shown to be effective tools for facilitating student learning. However, the use of concept maps in nursing education has been under-explored.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore how students develop concept maps and what these concept maps consist of, and their views on the use of concept maps as a learning activity in a PBL class.

Power dynamics in the student-teacher relationship in clinical settings.

Background: Among many factors that influence clinical learning, the teacher-student relationship has been found to be crucial. The imbalance of power in that relationship tends to be regarded as negative, but how students actually perceive the power within the relationship is unknown.

Aim: This study explored nurse students' perceptions of the power dynamics in the teacher-student relationship during their clinical placement.

Uncovering nursing students' views of their relationship with educators in a university context: A descriptive qualitative study.

Introduction: Power dynamics is a key element in the educator-student relationship, and can be influential to the learning outcomes of students.

Background: Power relations are inherent in the interaction between educators and students. The educator-student relationship is still an under-explored area of power dynamics.

The nurse-patient communication: voices from nursing students.

Background: Effective communication skills have been found to be one of the pivotal factors in building positive interpersonal relationships. Little is known about nursing undergraduates' perspectives on communicating with patients.

Objective: This study aimed to explore nursing students' perspectives and experiences of nurse-patient communication in their clinical placement.

We are different: the voices of psychiatric advanced practice nurses on the performance of their roles.

Background: Many studies have affirmed that psychiatric advanced practice nurses (APNs) perform multifaceted roles. However, only a limited amount of research has been conducted on their perceptions of the performance of their roles.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences of psychiatric APNs concerning the performance of their roles.

A qualitative study of freshmen's and academic advisors' perspectives on academic advising in nursing.

Many universities have established academic advisor schemes so that academic advisors play a proactive role in supporting freshmen, helping them to achieve both academic goals and personal and professional aspirations. This research aimed to explore freshmen's and academic advisors' perspectives on the academic advisor scheme of a nursing school. A total of 79 participants (74 freshmen and five academic advisors) were recruited to participate in this qualitative research.

A systematic review on critical thinking in medical education.

Background: Critical thinking is the ability to raise discriminating questions in an attempt to search for better ideas, a deeper understanding and better solutions relating to a given issue.

Objective: This systematic review provides a summary of efforts that have been made to enhance and assess critical thinking in medical education.

Design: Nine databases [Ovid MEDLINE(R), AMED, Academic Search Premier, ERIC, CINAHL, Web of Science, JSTOR, SCOPUS and PsycINFO] were searched to identify journal articles published from the start of each database to October 2012.

Student peer reviewers' views on teaching innovations and imaginative learning.

Background: Various teaching innovations have been proven effective in promoting students' critical thinking, creativity, problem solving and active learning. However, little attention has been paid to the possibility of including students as peer reviewers to evaluate these innovations in light of imaginative learning.

Aim: This study explored the perspective of senior students who played the role of the student peer reviewer on three teaching innovations, namely writing poetry, composing songs and creating role-plays in problem-based learning (PBL), specifically in relation to imaginative learning.

Implementation of a Psychiatric Nurse-led Outreach Service for Adults Residing at Subvented Old Age Homes: A Hong Kong Experience.

This paper reports on the implementation of a pioneering psychiatric nurse-led service that was designed to address the unmet mental healthcare needs of adults residing at subvented old age homes. It also describes features of potentially wider relevance to nurses interested in developing healthcare service for other underserved populations. We highlight the view that the crux of developing a successful service involves understanding existing service gaps; grasping the pulse of changing healthcare service policies; involving relevant stakeholders in the planning process; validating service outcomes; and seeking support from management.

Students' and experts' perspectives on three learning and teaching activities.

Nursing is a profession that closely related to human life, and nurses are required to demonstrate critical thinking and creativity in providing health care services. However, traditional teaching approaches usually limit students' autonomy and freedom of expressing their thoughts and feelings. In order to develop the corresponding competence of nursing students, I adopted three teaching innovations, namely writing poems, composing songs, and using role plays in a nursing problem-based learning class in a university in Hong Kong.

Nursing problem-based learning activity: song writing and singing.

The function of song is not only to deliver individual's messages, but also to serve as a learning approach to facilitate students' learning. To observe the effectiveness of songs in facilitating students' learning, a Problem-based Learning (PBL) class with twenty students was divided into four groups with five students per group. Each group was asked to write a song based on two given scenarios, to sing the song out loud, and to participate in a follow-up focus group interview afterwards.

Testing the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale.

This study tested the psychometric properties of a Chinese version of the level of expressed emotion scale in Hong Kong Chinese patients with severe mental illness and their family caregivers. First, the semantic equivalence with the original English version and test-retest reliability at 2-week interval of the Chinese version was examined. After that, the reproducibility, construct validity, and internal consistency of the Chinese version were tested.

Exploration of artistry in nursing teaching activities.

Background: By promoting hope and providing care to patients, nurses serve as both artists and professionals in clinical contexts. However, current nursing education mainly emphasises the teaching of medical knowledge and skills.

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the perspectives of year one nursing undergraduates on the definitions of artistry and the relationship of artistry with the sciences and nursing care.

Therapeutic Relationship Between Male Nursing Students and Female Patients.

This article explores the therapeutic relationship between male nursing students and female patients, through the use of autobiography in a qualitative approach. For this study, 18 male nursing students enrolled in master's and bachelor's programs in Hong Kong were recruited. They were asked to make records in a diary and draw pictures of their therapeutic relationship with female patients from their clinical experiences and then participate in a focus group interview.