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BACKGROUND: With the increasing shortage of clinical placement sites, nurse educators must be creative in providing alternative learning modalities that prepare students for nursing practice. Mask-Ed™ simulation may help address this challenge. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe junior-year undergraduate nursing students' experiences with Mask-Ed™ simulation in the context of caring for older adults. METHODS: Using a qualitative descriptive design, focus groups were conducted with 18 students who experienced Mask-Ed™ during 1 semester. RESULTS: Six themes emerged: (1) seeing the older adult as a person, not just a patient; (2) seeing the older adult in a new light; (3) authenticity of the experience and realistic scenarios; (4) ability to give myself to it; (5) safe space to practice; and (6) dress rehearsal for the RN role. CONCLUSIONS: Mask-Ed™ changed participants' perceptions of older adults and their consideration of pursuing a nursing career with this patient population. Participants also expressed Mask-Ed™ was a safe and authentic simulation to help prepare for nursing practice.
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Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate , Students, Nursing , Aged , Faculty, Nursing , Humans , Learning , Nursing Education Research , Qualitative ResearchABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Civility among critical care nurses is important for achieving positive patient outcomes. Professional comportment refers to nurse behaviors that are respectful, knowledgeable, deliberate, and compassionate. OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility and professional comportment among critical care nurses, and the extent to which nurse characteristics influence their perceptions. METHODS: Data were collected from nurses in 14 critical care units. Correlational analysis examined the relationship between nurses' perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility and professional comportment. Regression analysis was used to identify predictors of nurse-to-nurse incivility. RESULTS: Decreased perceptions of nurse-to-nurse incivility were associated with increased perceptions of professional comportment. Nurses' reports of receiving education about professional comportment was a significant predictor of increased nurse perceptions of professional comportment. CONCLUSION: Professional comportment education for critical care nurses is important and may provide an option to decrease incivility and promote healthy work environments for nurses.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Critical Care/psychology , Incivility/prevention & control , Interprofessional Relations , Nursing Staff, Hospital/psychology , Workplace/psychology , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Southwestern United StatesABSTRACT
A quasi-experimental mixed-methods study compared the effects of an unfolding case study with lecture in a nursing orientation class on new graduate registered nurses' knowledge, perceived learning, and satisfaction with the instructional method. Although results showed that the unfolding case study was engaging, learners who received content in a lecture format achieved significantly higher posttest scores. Nursing professional development specialists will find this article helpful when considering instructional methods for new graduate registered nurses.
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Inservice Training/methods , Nurses , Teaching , Adult , Educational Measurement , Female , Humans , Learning , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Nurse externships help prepare nursing students for practice, but the organizational costs are high. To decrease costs, nurse educators collaborated to revise their existing nurse extern program. Nursing professional development educators who want to implement a nurse extern program within an organization will benefit by learning about the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a nurse extern program designed to decrease costs while producing well-prepared new graduate nurses.
