Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the clinical readiness of simulation-based education (SBE) in preparing nursing and midwifery students for clinical practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This study has synthesised the findings from existing research studies and provides an overview of the current state of SBE in nursing and midwifery…

Challenges related to securing nurse practitioner (NP) preceptors limit graduate nursing enrollment and threaten the quality of NP clinical education. Understanding the motivation of NPs who choose to precept or not, empowers nurse educators to more effectively tailor preceptor recruitment efforts and NP curriculum. Using a nonexperimental…

Background: Midwifery practice is a requirement in the integrated undergraduate nursing programme which includes general, midwifery, community, and psychiatric nursing disciplines. Students are placed in these clinical areas for learning experiences. Students' experiences in midwifery practice are mostly overwhelming due to the nature of the…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how clinical instructors describe their preparedness of the QSEN patient safety competencies and subsequent experiential teaching strategies in pre-licensure registered nurse programs in the United States. The study was guided by D. A. Kolb's experiential learning theory and the…

The development of clinical judgment is an important topic in nursing education, and various teaching strategies have been proposed to improve this skill among nursing students and new graduate nurses. However, the effectiveness of these strategies is not well-researched. One promising approach is using higher-order questions to guide and develop…

This qualitative descriptive study investigated the experiences and professional outcomes of novice registered nurses participating in professional development nursing simulations integrating worked examples, a cognitive load instructional design principle. Drawing upon cognitive load theory and the worked examples principle, the study addressed…

The practice gap in nursing is a well-known and well-studied concern among the academic and practice sectors, which involves the inability of new graduate nurses to employ high-level clinical decisions. Various factors, including educational preparation, mentoring, and real-world exposure to complex patient care scenarios, shape the development of…

New graduate nurses report critical hands-on skills are not taught in school and contribute to the increased stress they feel when managing a life-threatening patient condition (Bennett et al., 2017). In the United States, approximately 290,000 in-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually (Andersen et al., 2019). The current Bachelor of Science in…

Background: Health professions training in Tanzania has gradually adopted the competency-based curricula (CBC) approach that focuses on learners' acquisition of competencies in knowledge skills and aptitude. Feedback from the graduates is crucial for improving CBC implementation and review to ensure that graduates acquire clinical competencies and…

In Korea, there are cases where nurses use abusive language while teaching new nurses. Nursing students who observe and experience this kind of violence question themselves if they will be able to perform well in such an environment. This descriptive research study examined the mediating effect of negative emotions and the regulated mediating…

The purpose of this study was to compile research on the advantages and challenges of using digital technology in clinical education for undergraduate nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study employed an integrative literature review with the use of the five steps as per Cooper's framework. Data were collected from four electronic…

Nursing faculty are responsible for graduating competent students and being competent themselves; however, the required competencies of clinical nursing faculty who instruct students in the clinical area are unidentified. The practice problem addressed in this project was the lack of a structured, organized process for identifying initial and…

A nurse faculty shortage has been identified by the American Nurses Association (ANA, n.d.a) and the National League for Nursing (NLN, n.d.). Research has identified factors which negatively impact a nurse's successful transition to the faculty role, including lower compensation, uncertainty as a novice nurse faculty, lack of pedagogy skills, and…

Professional trainers are responsible for teaching novice employees. However, the conventional approach to training professional trainers is generally a lecture-based mode, implying that they often lack the opportunity to learn to make use of practical cases encountered by novice employees, to explore problem-solving methods, to objectively…

This study utilized interpretive phenomenology to investigate the influence of academic consumerism on nurse educators. It aimed to gain insights into the effects of academic consumerism on teaching methodologies, classroom, and clinical management, as well as its impact on faculty satisfaction and their intention to persist in the profession.…