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Skills Centre: Why We Did It, How We Did It.
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Knight, Carolyn M.; Mowforth, Gill M. – Nurse Education Today, 1998
A literature review and a survey indicated that nursing students had difficulty developing psychomotor skills. A British college established a skills center with a structured learning approach to remedy the problem. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Nursing Education
Evaluating a Skills Centre: The Acquisition of Psychomotor Skills in Nursing--A Review of the Literature. [and] Evaluating a Skills Centre: The Acquisition of Psychomotor Skills in Nursing--A Review of the Theory.
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Knight, Carolyn M. – Nurse Education Today, 1998
Article 1 reviews literature on psychomotor skill acquisition, finding inconclusive research based on a positivist approach. Article 2 reviews theories of skill acquisition. Both reviews will be used to evaluate a skills center for nurses that is based on a constructivist approach. (SK)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Learning Theories, Literature Reviews