Your browser doesn't support javascript.
loading
Show: 20 | 50 | 100
Results 1 - 8 de 8
Filter
Add more filters










Database
Language
Publication year range
1.
J Perinat Educ ; 32(4): 213-218, 2023 Nov 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37974665

ABSTRACT

Research suggests that simulation in nursing education is a learning strategy that promotes critical thinking and utilization of clinical judgment in a safe environment without fear of retribution if errors are made. Senior nursing students in a small liberal arts university participated in a complex simulation that involved a pregnant patient with preeclampsia. The students were charged with doing a complete assessment of the patient and unborn baby. Upon completion of the assessment, the students utilized their critical thinking skills to determine the best treatment for the patient and baby that rendered the best outcomes. The goal of the exercise was to provide the students with a realistic scenario that advanced quickly into an emergent situation. The majority of students will not work in labor and delivery, but they will experience situations in their respective units that require quick thinking and critical decision-making. This simulation was a strategy to help facilitate these students into their transition to practice.

2.
J Prof Nurs ; 47: 31-34, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37295910

ABSTRACT

With an increase in human trafficking in the United States, there is a need for nursing curricula to provide education and engagement in recognizing and appropriately caring for victims. The purpose of this article is to describe an undergraduate nursing simulation involving a human trafficking victim with a discussion of how the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) Essentials were addressed by the simulation. The results of the course evaluation indicated that providing an opportunity for baccalaureate nursing students to engage in a simulation involving a victim of human trafficking allowed them to solidify classroom theory and education. Students reported increased confidence in recognizing victims after participating in the education and simulation. In addition, the simulation met many of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's new Essentials further highlighting the importance of this clinical activity within the nursing curriculum. Nursing education is obligated to empower students to identify social determinants of health and advocate for social justice related to vulnerable populations. Because nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers, they are likely to encounter human trafficking victims and should be educated to identify victims in practice.


Subject(s)
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate , Education, Nursing , Human Trafficking , Students, Nursing , Humans , United States , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/methods , Curriculum
3.
Br J Nurs ; 29(6): 364-372, 2020 Mar 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32207646

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Students can find interacting within a healthcare team challenging. It is important for students to understand their role and respect those of other healthcare team members. Interprofessional education (IPE) is a strategy for exploring the roles of self and others within the team. AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate nursing students' perceptions of roles and responsibilities following an IPE experience. METHODS: Students in an undergraduate baccalaureate degree nursing programme participated in a two-day IPE event with students in the physician's assistant's (PA) programme, pharmacy programme, and physical therapy (PT) programme. FINDINGS: Self-perception and the perception of others were two main themes that emerged. The results suggested that roles and responsibilities are often misunderstood. CONCLUSION: Educators must be committed to educating our future healthcare workforce on role expectations and responsibilities within an individual's own profession and that of others. This education should start in the foundation stages of each discipline's educational curricula.


Subject(s)
Interprofessional Relations , Patient Care Team/organization & administration , Professional Role/psychology , Students, Health Occupations/psychology , Students, Nursing/psychology , Curriculum , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/methods , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/organization & administration , Humans , Learning , Nursing Education Research , Nursing Evaluation Research , Nursing Methodology Research
4.
Br J Nurs ; 25(14): 792-4, 2016 Jul 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27467643

ABSTRACT

AIM: The purpose of this article is to address ways in which a nursing faculty can build nursing leadership competencies into a nursing programme. This article describes the use of simulation as a compelling learning strategy. BACKGROUND: Nurses need to be prepared to meet the demands of mass casualty events. With the growing need for major incident training, leadership competency development is a critical gap in the literature. EVALUATION: A collaborative simulation was used to help students apply classroom knowledge. In this simulation, students participated in major incident triage and the application of leadership competencies to appropriately manage victims' care. CONCLUSION: Collaboration among faculty members when designing simulation scenarios is a powerful approach to nursing education. Students were able to engage in necessary skills for their future nursing practice.


Subject(s)
Community Health Nursing , Education, Nursing , Leadership , Mass Casualty Incidents , Nurse's Role , Professional Competence , Triage , Decision Making , Humans , Nurse Administrators , Simulation Training
5.
Microb Ecol ; 71(2): 452-68, 2016 Feb.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26370111

ABSTRACT

Plants in all terrestrial ecosystems form symbioses with endophytic fungi that inhabit their healthy tissues. How these foliar endophytes respond to wildfires has not been studied previously, but is important given the increasing frequency and intensity of severe wildfires in many ecosystems, and because endophytes can influence plant growth and responses to stress. The goal of this study was to examine effects of severe wildfires on endophyte communities in forest trees, with a focus on traditionally fire-dominated, montane ecosystems in the southwestern USA. We evaluated the abundance, diversity, and composition of endophytes in foliage of Juniperus deppeana (Cupressaceae) and Quercus spp. (Fagaceae) collected contemporaneously from areas affected by recent wildfire and paired areas not affected by recent fire. Study sites spanned four mountain ranges in central and southern Arizona. Our results revealed significant effects of fires on endophyte communities, including decreases in isolation frequency, increases in diversity, and shifts in community structure and taxonomic composition among endophytes of trees affected by recent fires. Responses to fire were similar in endophytes of each host in these fire-dominated ecosystems and reflect regional fire-return intervals, with endophytes after fire representing subsets of the regional mycoflora. Together, these findings contribute to an emerging perspective on the responses of diverse communities to severe fire, and highlight the importance of considering fire history when estimating endophyte diversity and community structure for focal biomes.


Subject(s)
Endophytes/isolation & purification , Fungi/isolation & purification , Plant Leaves/microbiology , Trees/microbiology , Biodiversity , Endophytes/classification , Endophytes/genetics , Fires , Forests , Fungi/classification , Fungi/genetics , Plant Leaves/chemistry , Trees/chemistry , Trees/classification
6.
J Christ Nurs ; 32(3): 162-7, 2015.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26211302

ABSTRACT

Service-learning and interprofessional education can have an effect on nursing students' learning experiences, attitudes, transcultural knowledge, and on patient outcomes. Interprofessional education is a method in which healthcare students learn their different roles and responsibilities, and recognize how patients benefit from the collaborative process. The purpose of this paper is to review professional literature to determine the best practices for implementation of service-learning and interprofessional education into nursing curricula.


Subject(s)
Curriculum , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/organization & administration , Inservice Training/organization & administration , Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Care/psychology , Transcultural Nursing , Attitude of Health Personnel , Cooperative Behavior , Humans , Nurse's Role , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Students, Nursing/psychology
7.
Microb Ecol ; 70(1): 61-76, 2015 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25645243

ABSTRACT

In hot deserts, plants cope with aridity, high temperatures, and nutrient-poor soils with morphological and biochemical adaptations that encompass intimate microbial symbioses. Whereas the root microbiomes of arid-land plants have received increasing attention, factors influencing assemblages of symbionts in aboveground tissues have not been evaluated for many woody plants that flourish in desert environments. We evaluated the diversity, host affiliations, and distributions of endophytic fungi associated with photosynthetic tissues of desert trees and shrubs, focusing on nonsucculent woody plants in the species-rich Sonoran Desert. To inform our strength of inference, we evaluated the effects of two different nutrient media, incubation temperatures, and collection seasons on the apparent structure of endophyte assemblages. Analysis of >22,000 tissue segments revealed that endophytes were isolated four times more frequently from photosynthetic stems than leaves. Isolation frequency was lower than expected given the latitude of the study region and varied among species a function of sampling site and abiotic factors. However, endophytes were very species-rich and phylogenetically diverse, consistent with less arid sites of a similar latitudinal position. Community composition differed among host species, but not as a function of tissue type, sampling site, sampling month, or exposure. Estimates of abundance, diversity, and composition were not influenced by isolation medium or incubation temperature. Phylogenetic analyses of the most commonly isolated genus (Preussia) revealed multiple evolutionary origins of desert-plant endophytism and little phylogenetic structure with regard to seasonality, tissue preference, or optimal temperatures and nutrients for growth in vitro. Together, these results provide insight into endophytic symbioses in desert-plant communities and can be used to optimize strategies for capturing endophyte biodiversity at regional scales.


Subject(s)
Ascomycota/genetics , Biodiversity , Biological Evolution , Endophytes/genetics , Plants/microbiology , Symbiosis , Arizona , Bayes Theorem , Computational Biology , Desert Climate , Food , Geography , Likelihood Functions , Models, Genetic , Phylogeny , Polymerase Chain Reaction , Statistics, Nonparametric , Temperature
8.
Suicide Life Threat Behav ; 35(6): 640-5, 2005 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16552979

ABSTRACT

The issue of suicide, including prevention, intervention, and postvention, continues to be a problem on college campuses. For this study, data concerning a variety of issues related to college student suicide were collected from 1,865 students at four different universities. Incidence, risk factors, and potential solutions are described, as well as implications for mental health professionals in university settings.


Subject(s)
Students/statistics & numerical data , Suicide Prevention , Suicide/statistics & numerical data , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Incidence , Male , Middle Aged , Ohio/epidemiology , Risk Factors , Universities
SELECTION OF CITATIONS
SEARCH DETAIL
...