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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
Learning Clinical Skills: An Interprofessional Approach.
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Freeth, Della; Nicol, Maggie – Nurse Education Today, 1998
In a clinical skills center, nurses, doctors, and specialists helped nursing and medical students develop clinical and communication skills in the context of holistic patient care. Two aspects of the format received high ratings: realistic patient scenarios and interdisciplinary team teaching. (SK)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Medical 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