Recently added articles from Nursing Education Perspectives:
Some things do not change: an enduring lesson from the game of trivial pursuit.(President's Message)
Sep 01, 2009; ... Sarah, a nursing student at Community College of Philadelphia, stood by the elevator in a nursing home waiting for me to arrive. Sarah greeted me saying, "It's the third week of this rotation and I'm getting nowhere with Anna. All she ever says is, 'Do I live here? Is this my room? Where ...
How do we know competence?(FROM the Editor)
Sep 01, 2009; ... THERE IS AN OLD COLLOQUIAL EXPRESSION, "We've been around this barn before." In relation to competency-based education, we sure have. In earlier days, we used to assume that nurses who graduated from an accredited program and passed the required licensing examination were competent. We ...
Faculty matters.
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SHARON DECKER, PhD. RN, CCRN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, holds the Covenant Health System Endowed Chair in Simulation and Nursing Education at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) in Lubbock. She will share her vision for simulation as a tool to ...
Assessment and grading practices in schools of nursing: national survey findings part I.(NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH)
Sep 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In fall 2007, the Evaluation of Learning Advisory Council of the National League for Nursing conducted a survey on the assessment and evaluation strategies and grading practices used by nurse faculty in prelicensure RN programs. This article describes how faculty evaluate student ...
Bridging the gap: a comparison of the professional nursing values of students, new graduates, and seasoned professionals.(NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH)
Sep 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Given the significant and widespread changes in the health care system, generational diversity and the resulting differences in values present a challenge for the nursing profession. A three-group comparative design was used to compare the professional nursing values held by ...