Anxiety in nursing students: The impact of using mobile technology with quick response codes.

Background: Pre-licensure nursing students often experience anxiety, especially during their clinical learning experiences. High levels of anxiety can be disruptive to both clinical learning and safe patient care. Providing students with educational resources via mobile devices to review prior to performing psychomotor skills with real patients may help reduce their anxiety.

Culturally competent practice in a pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing program in the United States: a mixed-methods study.

Aim: This study examined how one pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing program at a public university in the southeastern United States integrated concepts and issues of culture and culturally competent practice into its curriculum.

Background: Teaching and learning about culturally competent practice in pre-licensure nursing programs are essential to ensure a culturally competent health care workforce.

Method: A mixed-methods case study approach was used.