G. Rumay Alexander is a leader working to transform nursing education and address systemic racism within the nursing profession and the health care system more broadly. At the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Alexander serves as clinical professor at the School of Nursing and assistant dean for relational excellence at the Adams…

Outlines a case of a nursing student charged with drug trafficking who was not suspended due to concern over student rights. Reviews case law that would have supported suspension. Advocates clearly defined policies and procedures that ensure due process while allowing for disciplinary action. (SK)

This article identifies a surprising dearth of studies that explicitly link communication and evaluation at substantive, theoretical, and methodological levels. A three-fold typology of evaluation studies referring to communication is proposed and examples given. The importance of organizational communication in program delivery is stressed and…

Nursing students with learning disabilities can be accommodated with flexible teaching strategies without lowering educational standards. (JOW)

Asserts that the craft knowledge of skilled teachers must be shared to help nursing students become competent, committed qualitative researchers. Strategies to develop a qualitative eye, deal with challenges such as ethical conduct, inform approaches to fieldwork, and extend capacity and confidence to interpret data, play with ideas, analyze…

Self-evaluation skills are believed to promote professional development, enhance self-esteem, and develop self-awareness, but nursing students are not taught these skills in any systematic way. Collaborative evaluation techniques provide nursing educators with a framework for teaching students essential self-evaluation skills. (Author)

Natasha is a nursing student with a 4.0 grade point average, a first-generation East Indian American, and the first woman in her family to go to college. Lugging a twenty-five-pound book bag of texts that cause her slight frame to slump forward under the weight, she carries a far heavier burden of familial expectation and pride. She has expressed…

A male teacher working with female nursing students reflects on the following issues: (1) extent to which his presence reflects sociocultural dynamics; (2) the complexity of gender dynamics and the need for openness to multiple perspectives; (3) ethical challenges of implementing an empowerment approach; and (4) the search for alternatives to…

High attrition rates among African-American students are a significant factor in the decline in graduation rates from nursing programs. Nursing education needs a program to address problems of anger, frustration, and loneliness and to develop the African-American student as a whole person. (Author)

Nursing education can accommodate learning disabled nursing students if programs are flexible and teaching methods are adjusted to include choice of learning modality, the self-paced learning mastery approach, simulation of patient problem-solving modules, use of the computer to aid record keeping, and testing accommodations. (Author/DB)

Discusses the nature and scope of the problem of accepting and integrating handicapped students into professional nursing programs. Provides insights and strategies to help nurse educators work with students handicapped by a hearing loss. (JOW)

Male student nurses encounter unique conflicts in the nursing education process that can interfere with their learning abilities and ultimately their success. This article examines these conflicts and offers a variety of teaching strategies to combat them. (Author/CT)

Describes five principles for cost-effective clinical practice: efficient use of self, efficient use of equipment and supplies, delegation of work, critical path method, and organization of the environment. (SK)

Challenges of teaching graduate nursing students for whom English is a second language include language and communication problems, writing difficulties, and social and cultural sensitivities. (SK)

A case study of a college nursing program reveals the politics of planning in higher education and the need to be aware of power relations, negotiated interests, and ethical issues in order to effect meaningful change for students. (SK)