Peer mentorship programs are an effective tool to help individuals navigate the academic challenges and stressors in an undergraduate program. A qualitative study, focusing on peer mentors and mentees in a psychiatric nursing program was conducted. Nine participants from an undergraduate psychiatric nursing program took part in an interview using…

Despite the benefits of collaboration, first-year nursing students prefer not to work together. It was important to find out why nursing students do not want to collaborate. The purpose of this study was to discover first-year nursing students' and faculty's perceptions of how instructor-created opportunities for collaboration contributed to…

Cheating in higher education is a significant problem. The study aims to determine nursing students' attitudes and opinions toward cheating in exams. The type of research is descriptive. The research data were collected in the classroom environment of 716 students in day and evening education programs. The research data were collected using…

This dissertation investigates the implementation of Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) programs in Illinois community colleges, focusing on Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) faculty perceptions. Utilizing an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, the study first conducted a survey among full-time ADN faculty across Illinois community…

Nurse educators play a critical role in preparing prelicensure students for the updated NCLEX-RN, which focuses on clinical reasoning and judgment. Despite evidence in the nursing and education literature supporting active teaching-learning strategies, faculty continue to use lecture-based approaches. Little is known about the factors influencing…

Concern over academic entitlement has grown in higher education in the last two decades. Academic entitlement, defined as unfounded expectations of academic success, undeserved services and unrealistic accommodations (McLellan & Jackson, 2017), in nursing students is an under investigated phenomena. In this correlational, cross-sectional…

Electronic communication, most notably email, is ubiquitous in higher education and remains the dominant, most commonly used communication method in the workplace. Unfortunately, student emails are often abrupt, lack salutations and signatures, and can even be riddled with errors that make it difficult to understand their intended message. This…

RN-BSN programs in the United States, especially in the Mid-Atlantic region, have experienced a decrease in enrollment in the last several years (AACN, 2023). In addition, Northeast University has faced retention challenges in recent years. Mentoring is beneficial in higher education when implemented, nurtured, and sustained throughout a student's…

Retention of information is essential for transfer of knowledge from one course to another. Human anatomy and physiology (A&P), offered as a 2-semester course at Notre Dame of Maryland University, is a foundational prerequisite for many health-related programs. For this study the researcher attempted to quantify the knowledge retention decline…

China's higher vocational nursing education continues to develop. Teaching methods based on classroom lectures are difficult to achieve high-quality teaching results. Nowadays, clinical nursing has an increasing demand for all aspects of higher vocational nursing students. "Surgical Nursing" is a required course for nursing students and…

This dissertation was intended to analyze specific educational occurrences involving faculty nurse educators during their presentation of conceptual and procedural knowledge in various nursing education forums. A rigorous basic qualitative research design was employed to delve into the underlying meanings and reasons nurse educators hold certain…

The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the academic and healthcare fields. There is a lack of research on the perspectives of nurse administrators, especially in academia. Program outcomes are a central component of measuring a program's successes. The pandemic forced accommodations in education and clinical practice; by transitioning to remote…

Nurses in all practice settings experienced ethical challenges. The ANA further detailed the role of nursing administrative role functions in "Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice" (2016) and was largely written for nursing administrative roles in clinical settings. Nursing education literature focused on ethical…

Service design is an inclusive and powerful process that works in any industry that produces services. The field of nursing is no exception. Transferring service design knowledge from experts in institutions to the students in different specialties and fields of study is important to spread its use. This case study follows the implementation of…

The development of best strategies for improving learning engagement in the field of mental health nursing education, is a challenge for teachers. Using self-reflection, students are facilitated to actively participate in their own learning process, improving their efforts to understand and perform best practice for patients. This study aimed to…