Nurse Education Journal of Nursing
How Concept Maps Facilitate Learning in Nursing Education
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Concept maps are visual tools that help nursing students organize and connect complex information. They promote critical thinking by encouraging analysis and synthesis rather than rote memorization. In both classroom and clinical settings, concept maps support deeper understanding and better care planning. They also enhance collaboration and peer learning. Overall, concept maps strengthen cognitive skills essential for effective nursing practice.
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Revolutionizing Nursing Education: The Impact of Virtual Reality and Simulation Technologies
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The rapid evolution of virtual reality (VR) and simulation technologies is transforming nursing education by enhancing clinical training, improving decision-making skills, and fostering experiential learning. These advanced tools provide immersive and interactive environments that simulate real-world clinical scenarios, allowing nursing students to develop critical competencies in a safe and controlled setting. This paper examines the integration of VR and simulation technologies in nursing education, focusing on their impact on clinical skill acquisition, critical thinking, and patient safety. Additionally, it addresses the challenges of adopting these technologies, including cost, accessibility, and the need for faculty training. By exploring current innovations and future directions, this paper highlights the transformative potential of VR and simulation in preparing future nurses for complex healthcare environments.
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The Negative Impacts of Fast-Track Nursing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Fast-tracked nursing graduates faced challenges due to limited training during COVID-19. Learn how this impacted patient safety, workplace dynamics, and the future of healthcare.
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The Crucial Role of DEI in Education and Healthcare
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The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse. This demographic shift underscores the urgent need for culturally and linguistically competent healthcare professionals and educators from diverse backgrounds. Incorporating DEI education becomes vital for preparing a workforce equipped to improve health outcomes for the communities they serve.
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Enhancing Nursing Education: Unfolding Case Studies with Standardized Patients for Difficult Conversations
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Discussing the use of standardized patients (SPs) for difficult conversations with patients regarding substance use. We included student feedback to support the importance of using SPs.
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An Effective Orientation Program is Key to Laying the Framework within a Virtual Nursing Environment
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This article describes the importance of developing a well-structured orientation for virtual nurses. It also outlines components to include in a virtual nursing orientation.
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The Importance of Networking in Nursing School
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Embarking on the journey to become a nurse is both exciting and challenging. While academic excellence and clinical skills are crucial components of nursing education, there is another vital aspect that often doesn't get as much attention: networking. Building a robust professional network during nursing school can significantly enhance your career prospects and provide invaluable support throughout your nursing journey. This article delves into why networking is essential for aspiring nurses and how to effectively build and maintain your professional connections.
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Finding the Right Nursing School: Aligning Your Values with Your Education
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Choosing the right nursing school is one of the most crucial decisions aspiring nurses will make on their journey to an impactful career. While factors like accreditation, location, and cost are undoubtedly important, there's another critical aspect that often goes overlooked: alignment of values. This article explores why finding a nursing school that resonates with your personal and professional values is essential and how it can shape your future in healthcare.
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Integrating Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence in Nursing Education
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the medical industry has brought about changes in patient care, diagnosis, and therapy. At the same time, higher education has realized that it needs to adapt to these technological advancements to ensure that future nurses have the knowledge and skills required in the rapidly evolving healthcare environment. This brief commentary aims to ascertain the implicit support that academic faculty members offer for the application of large language models and artificial intelligence in the teaching of nursing sciences.
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Navigating Resource Challenges in Nursing Education: Perspectives from a Dean of a Nursing Program
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By investing in nursing faculty, colleges and universities can increase the number of well-trained nurses entering the workforce, thus helping to address this critical shortage. However, it is a common sentiment among nursing faculty at colleges and universities that their counterparts in other disciplines may not fully appreciate the rationale behind the seemingly greater need for resources, including financial compensation, within nursing education. As a Dean of a Nursing Program, I share this frustration and exhaustion stemming from the continual effort required to justify why nursing faculty necessitate higher salaries and greater resource allocation compared to many other departments within the institution. Overall, the multifaceted nature of nursing education more often contributes to a higher workload for nursing faculty compared to their counterparts in other academic disciplines. Nursing education is multifaceted, a fact that many other disciplines do not fully understand.
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Conflicts between Sound Educational Practices and Meeting the Needs of Practice for a nursing Graduate in the era of COVID-19
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The U.S. healthcare landscape is continually changing due to population diversity, technological advancements, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in unique healthcare needs within multicultural communities. This evolution mandates nursing graduates to possess comprehensive skills to function in this dynamic environment. However, challenges such as full curricula, limited computer skills among nursing students, language barriers, and financial issues create a conflict between educational practices and practical requirements for nursing graduates. This article explores essential educational practices, highlighting the need for nursing programs to produce culturally competent graduates skilled in technology. It advocates for the incorporation of innovative learning strategies and curriculum flexibility in nursing education to foster sound educational practices, enabling graduates to meet the necessary outcomes and competencies in today's complex healthcare environment.
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Unwitnessed Falls in the Nursing Home: Finding the root cause
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Understanding how effective post and pre-fall documentation can impact root cause analysis for unwitnessed falls in senior care settings
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Value of a Bachelor's Educated Nurse
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Whether one is a recent graduate of an associate degree in nursing program or an experienced nurse who wishes to explore other opportunities in nursing. It is a good time to consider enrolling in a RN to BSN program and complete the BSN degree in nursing. In many cases, a BSN will open the door to opportunities in management, quality improvement, or be the first step in obtaining a Master of Science degree in nursing. In addition, some medical centers that hold Magnet recognition from the American Nurses' Credentialing Center (ANCC) require nurses to either have a BSN or begin school to obtain a BSN.
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Promoting Respect and an Environment of Civility in the Classroom
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Educators today can attest to the lack of student respect shown in their classes. A lack of respect is a form of incivility. Since returning to in-person learning, respect has taken a nosedive. In fact, most of us have witnessed an increase of incivility in all walks of life. The question is, what to do about it? At a community college in upstate NY, the School of Nursing, Health & Wellness also noted a lack of respect displayed among students. The lack of respect was an issue the school felt strongly needed to be addressed. This prompted the creation of a Respect Committee with representatives from the Nursing Program, the Occupational Therapy Assistant Program and the Exercise and Human Performance Program to address the issue of student disrespect. To address the issue, the committee sent out a brief confidential survey to faculty and staff to investigate the prevalence of student disrespect, the facultys’ comfort with addressing student disrespect and established strategies for faculty to help guide them to promote a respectful environment for both teaching and learning.
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So... How Can We Better Learn CPR?
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An essay on how I think teaching CPR for the benefit of the science of CPR is more valuable than having nurses learn CPR online followed by manikin practice thereafter.
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Health and Wellbeing: A Student Nurse's Perspective
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This essay discusses health and well-being as multifaceted concepts and explores how my health and wellbeing has been affected since becoming a student nurse. This essay also discusses the importance of maintaining good health and wellbeing in relation to self-care and patient care.
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Increasing demands on nurses and the role of the nurse educator: Developing nursing competencies
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Increasing demands of todays healthcare environment poses many challenges for nurses providing care at the bedside. Nurse educators are in a position to develop nursing competencies that support nurses and assist them in the provision of safe, quality patient care.
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The Nursing Image: A Position Paper
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The nursing image connotes a healing caregiver at a patient’s bedside. Nursing as a highly skilled and education profession remains incongruent with media and advertising portrayal of the nursing image, in contrast to published reports as the most trusted profession for the past decade. Current public perceptions of the nursing image are sharply contrasted to that of how nursing prefers to be viewed. This purpose of this work is to edify two contrasting positions of the ethical constructs of the nursing image as well as present posits of the author.
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Our Responsibility at Tech-Savvy Nurses
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With the advent of electronic charting in the workplace comes new challenges for nurses and medical professionals. As computer users, we can help make the transition easier for those nurses, nursing assistants and nursing students who are not as comfortable with technology. This article lists a few ways to do so.
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Nurses And IELTS Exam
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IELTS has been a fast growing organization over the years. I think It's expensive and it shouldn't be a requirement for nurses who want to work abroad. After all, most nurses know how to write, read, speak, and understand English.
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