Nursing School Students Research Articles

Effect of Educational Program on Nursing School Students' Communication Skills Used with Hospitalized Patients

Background: Communication is an integral component of all nursing interventions. So, nursing students should learn effective communication skills that are necessary for establishing a relationship with patients and provide effective nursing care. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational program on nursing students’ communication skills that are used with hospitalized patients. The study conducted at the secondary nursing school in Tanta. The study subjects were included all of students enrolled in second academic year (90 students). Design: quasiexperimental research design was used. Two tools were used, tool (1) consists of two parts: Part (1): a socio-demographic questionnaire. Part (2): nurse- patient communication skills questionnaire, Tool (2): nurses communication skills observational sheet. The educational program was developed by researchers and consisted of six sessions about communication skills. Results There are statistically significant differences between before and after the training program regarding all items of students' knowledge and their performance of communication skills during interaction with hospitalized patients (P=0.001) Conclusion: nursing students who attended educational training program improved their communication skills that facilitate their nursing relationships, and enhance professional nursing care. Recommendations: communication training skills should be established and learned as a separate course in nursing education of nursing schools.

The Smartphone Addiction Levels and the Association With Communication Skills in Nursing and Medical School Students.

The use of smartphones among young people is quite common. However, smartphones are associated with negative effects when used excessively. It has been reported that smartphone use may adversely affect learning in the classroom, cause safety issues, and negatively affect interpersonal communications. The aims of this study were to determine the level of smartphone addiction among nursing and medical school students and to examine the effect of smartphone addiction level on communication skills. This cross-sectional study was conducted with medical school and nursing students at a public university (502 participants). Data were collected using a personal information form, the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version (SAS-SV), and the Communication Skills Assessment Scale. All of the participants in the study owned smartphones. Most (70.9%) were female, and 58.2% were in the nursing program. The participants used smartphones for a mean time of 5.07 ± 3.32 hours a day, primarily for messaging. The mean total SAS-SV score for the participants was 31.89 ± 9.90, and a significant difference in SAS-SV mean scores was found with regard to the variables of department, gender, daily smartphone use duration, academic success, status regarding smartphone use in the classroom, participation in sports, easy communication with patients and relatives, preferred mode of communication, health problems tied to phone use, and injury status (p < .05). In addition, a positive weak-to-moderate relationship was found between SAS-SV mean scores and the variables of daily smartphone use duration and years of smartphone use, whereas a negative weak relationship was found between SAS-SV mean scores and Communication Skills Assessment Scale scores. Daily smartphone use duration was found to be the most important predictor of smartphone addiction. Higher SAS-SV scores have a negative impact on interpersonal communication and social life and reduce learning efficacy in students. Therefore, students and lecturers should be better informed regarding the benefits and risks of smartphone use in education, with precautions provided against excessive and needless use.

SECONDARY NURSING SCHOOL STUDENTS PERCEPTION REGARDING CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND CLINICAL SUPERVISION IN PORT SAID CITY

Background:The clinical learning environment refers to the learning placement that provides opportunities to integrate theory into practice, build clinical decision-making abilities, and develop a professional identity.Aim: to assess the perception of secondary nursing school students regarding their clinical learning environment and clinical supervision in Port Said City.Subjects and Method: A descriptive correlational research designwas used for the current study in three secondary nursing schools at Port- Said city. The study subjects will include 360 femalestudents.Two tools were used for data collection; Clinical learning environment inventory actual and expected form(CLEI), and clinical supervision questionnaire(CSQ).Results:The current study revealed that the majority of nursing students reported that there was low level of actual clinical learning environment (66.47%), andthe majority of nurse students had a high level of expected clinical learning environment (76.4%), also more than half of nurse students had a moderate level of clinical supervision (56.9%).Conclusion:It was evidenced that there was a significant difference between actual and expected clinical environments. Also the results suggested significant relationship between clinical learning environment and clinical supervision. Recommendations:The main recommendations are suggested, considering students’ expectations of clinical teaching environment and decreasingthe gap between the actual and expectedclinical environments is necessary. In addition,continuous studies on clinical teaching environment evaluation and their results, and to assess clinical instructors’ and clinical staff opinions about the clinical teaching environment are recommended.

The Effects of Critical Thinking Disposition, Perception of Others and Empathy on Communication Competency among Students Majoring in Nursing

Background/Objectives: This study seeks to identify correlations among critical thinking, perception of others and communication competencyamong nursing school studentsMethod/Statistical Analysis: Survey respondents were 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students majoring in nursing at three universities of Chung Nam and Chung Buk who understood the objectives of the study and who gave their consent on participation.Findings: The critical thinking of subjects scored 3.27(1~5), their perception of others scored 3.35(1~5), empathy scored 3.15(1~5) and communication skills was 3.34(1~5). Variables affecting respondents’ communication competencywere critical thinking disposition 27.5%(?=.42, p<.001), peer relationships 7.8%(?=.27, p<.001) and perception of others 6.2%(?=.27, p<.001) with a total explanatory power of 41.5%.The study found out that, among those independent variables, critical thinking dispositionhas the greatest effect on communication competency.Improvements/Applications: Based on these findings, it seems necessary to develop curriculums and programs that include strategies for smooth communication competency and improved critical thinking among nursing school students.

A Study on Improvement of Quality of Care-givers to Long Term Care Old Age

Background/Objectives: This study is a survey research to identify relationship among organizational commitment, job training satisfaction, and empowerment.Methods/Statistical analysis: This research analyzed factors affecting satisfaction with college life using 112 nursing school students in S city as research objects. Specifically, this research examined self-resilience, communication capacity, and self-respect. In the results of this study, the organizational commitment of the subjects did not show the significant difference with the job training satisfaction and the empowerment.Findings: There was significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and empowerment. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the quality by using the correlation between job satisfaction and empowerment.Improvements/Applications: while this study did not find any relationship between organizational commitment and job training satisfaction, there have been other researches which report that work education improves organizational commitment. Thus, it is necessary to do repetitive researches on organizational commitment and job training satisfaction.

Predictors of academic success and aspirations in secondary nursing education: A cross-sectional study in Croatia

BackgroundAcademic success of students in nursing education is an issue causing concern in many parts of the world because of the shortage of nurses in the labour market, versatility of the educational programs and status of the students during studies and after graduation. ObjectivesTo determine the predictors of academic success and educational aspirations of secondary nursing school students to enrol in higher education programs. Participants and methodsThis cross-sectional study included 312 students (92.6% response rate) from the Health School in Split, Croatia, enrolled in nursing program in 2015/2016. Besides sociodemographic data and grade point average (GPA), we collected data using 9 instruments: performance self-efficacy, academic self-efficacy, perseverance, attitudes towards science, self-respect, motivation, dispositional hope, future time perspective, and perceived personal incompetence. ResultsIn a linear regression analysis, performance self-efficacy (β = 0.38) and future time orientation (β = 0.19) proved to be significant predictors of current GPA, explaining 20% of the variance. In logistic regression, participants' aspiration to enrol in higher education rather than get employed after secondary school graduation was predicted by higher extrinsic motivation (odds ratio (OR) = 1.11, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.06 to 1.17) and higher performance self-efficacy (OR = 3.06, 95% CI = 1.62 to 5.77); explaining approximately 26% of the variance in the results. ConclusionPerformance self-efficacy and future time orientation were the main predictors of academic success of Croatian nursing students at the secondary education level. Higher performance self-efficacy and extrinsic motivation were associated with aspirations to continue university education.

Investigation and analysis of dry eye status of nursing students

Objective To evaluate the dry eye status of nursing school students and understand their ocular surface health. Methods Using the convenience sampling method, a total of 90 nursing students studying in the Nursing College of Capital Medical University in March 2018 were selected as the research objects. The OCULUS Jenvis-OSDI dry eye questionnaire and OCULUS ocular surface comprehensive analyzer were used subjectively and objectively to analyze the heath of ocular surface. Results According to the OSDI dry eye questionnaire, mild dry eyes were 21 cases accounted for 23.3%, moderate dry eyes were 42 cases accounted for 46.7%, and severe dry eyes were 21 cases accounted for 23.3%. The main symptom of dry eye was foreign body sensation, accounting for 53.3%. The secondary symptoms were photophobia and blurred vision, which accounted for 46.7% and 40%, respectively. The OCULUS ocular surface comprehensive analyzer showed that the amount of tear secretion in both eyes was normal. In dry eye grading based on average tear film break-up time, critical dry eye accounted for about 60% and dry eye accounted for about 10%. Eye red analysis showed that 9 patients (10%) with hyperemia score>2.0 were dry eye caused by inflammation. Conclusions The nursing school students have a high incidence of dry eye and subjective symptoms. It indicates that the students overuse eye and do not pay attention to eye hygiene. It is the responsibility of the nursing teacher to carry out health education for students, popularize scientific and rational use of eye knowledge, and pay attention to eye health. Key words: Students, nursing; Dry eye; Ocular surface disease; Investigation

Development of curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students

Objective To develop a curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for students in nursing school of China and to test its reliability and validity. Methods The first draft of scale was developed with the methods of literature review and Delphi technique. From June to November 2018, we selected 575 interns from three nursing schools undergoing curriculum integration in Heilongjiang Province as respondents by convenience sampling. The reliability and validity of this scale were tested. Results The curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students included three dimensions and 20 items. The content validity index of the total scale was 0.943 and that of items ranged from 0.8 to 1.0. Exploratory factor analysis extracted three factors including value tendency, participation tendency and emotional tendency with 77.602% for the cumulative variance contribution.The Cronbach's α coefficient of the total scale was 0.928 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.942 to 0.954; the Spearman-Brown coefficient of the total scale was 0.879 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.921 to 0.933; the test-retest reliability coefficient of the total scale was 0.789 and that of dimensions ranged from 0.549 to 0.779. Conclusions The curriculum integration attitude assessment scale for nursing students has high reliability and validity which can be used to assess nursing students' attitude with curriculum integration so as to provide a scientific basis for further optimize curriculum system and a reference for similar teaching assessment. Key words: Students, nursing; Curriculum integration; Nursing; Scale

Attitudes of nursing and medical school students towards ageism

The present study aimed to evaluate the attitudes of nursing and medical school students towards age discrimination and to determine the association between these attitudes and various variables. A total of 662 students, 328 from the Faculty of Nurse Education and 334 from the Faculty of Medicine, participated in the present descriptive and cross-sectional study.Data were collected using Data Form for socio-demographic characteristicsand Ageism Attitude Scale (AAS). Descriptive statistics, t-test, Mann-Whitney U test, Chi-square test, One-Way ANOVA, and Kruskal Wallis test were used to evaluate the data using IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows (Version 20.0).Nursing school students had higher points in “restricting the life of elderly people”, “positive discrimination towards them” and Ageism Attitude Scale, but had lower points in “negative discrimination towards them” compared to medical school students. While the points of “positive discrimination towards elderly” and Ageism Attitude Scale of the students of two schools were not significantly different (p>0.05), points of “restricting the life of elderly people” and “negative discrimination towards elderly” varied significantly between the students of two schools (p

Assessment of knowledge and attitude of technical nursing school students regarding autistic children

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interactions, as well as verbal and nonverbal communication deficits, with repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. When nursing students have knowledge regarding ASDs, they will be able to refer children at risk for ASD for diagnostic evaluation and intervention at the earliest possible opportunity, and also, it will enhance their attitude toward autistic children. Aim To assess knowledge and attitude of technical nursing school students regarding autistic children. Research design A descriptive correlation research design was used to conduct this study. Sample All students who finished the 5 years of technical nursing school were included in this study, representing 110 students (according to the list obtained from the technical nursing school at academic year 2018–2019). The technical nursing school at Kaser Al Aini Hospital which is affiliated to Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University was the site of the study. Patients and methods The data were collected using two tools: the first one is a student self-administered questionnaire. This tool included (a) demographic characteristics of the technical nursing school students and (b) students’ knowledge. It included questions to assess the technical nursing school students’ knowledge toward autistic children. The second tool is a technical nursing school students’ attitude scale toward autistic children. Results The mean age of the studied technical nursing students was 21.00. Most of them (90.9%) were single. There were statistically significant relations between their total level of knowledge and their level of attitude (P>0.001). There was a positive correlation between the technical nursing school students’ total score of knowledge and their total score of attitude regarding autistic children (P>0.01). Conclusion The study concluded that 45.5% of the technical nursing school students had satisfactory knowledge regarding autistic children. Overall, 76.4% of them had positive attitude regarding autistic children. Recommendations The study recommended introduction of autistic disease lecture in the curriculum of technical nursing school students from the first year and development of clinical protocols that can assist the technical nursing school students in care of autistic children positively.

Assessment of Exposure to Family’s Abuse and Negligence among Minia Nursing Schools Students

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines child abuse and child maltreatment as all forms of physical and emotional, sexual abuse, neglect or commercial or other exploitation resulting in actual or potential harm to the child's health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power. The Egyptian Foundation for Advancement of the Childhood Condition (EFACC) revealed in its monthly report that March 2017 saw the highest rates of child abuse in Egypt over the last five years. Aim: to assess pattern of family's abuse and negligence exposer among nursing school students’. Research design: descriptive exploratory research design was utilized to meet the aim of this study. Sample: purposive sample of about 437 male and female nursing students in selected nursing schools and aged from 15 -18 years and willing to participate in the study at Minia nursing secondary schools. Tools: two tools were used in this study; assessment of students’ knowledge structured questionnaire; child trauma questionnaire (Diavid P.Bernstein 1995 ). Results: more than half( 65.9 % ) of the students have satisfactory knowledge about family abuse and one third percentage (34.1%) had unsatisfactory knowledge about family abuse. It revealed that more than half (51.7%) of the students had exposed to physical abuse. It was noticed that (88.1%, 97.9% respectively) of the students’ had not exposed to psychological and sexual abuse. while (2.1%) had exposed to sexual abuse. Also the majority of students’ had exposed to emotional abuse and neglect (82.2%,82.4% respectively). Conclusion: more than half of the students have satisfactory knowledge about family abuse and one third percentage had unsatisfactory knowledge about family abuse, Also the majority of students’ had exposed to emotional abuse and neglect. Recommendations: The study recommended that monitor and closely observes parents performance regarding child abuse address to determine their needs for continuing education programs and provide training courses regarding child abuse and negligence for parents and students.

From experiencing to critical thinking: a contextual game-based learning approach to improving nursing students’ performance in Electrocardiogram training

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) is one of the important tools for diagnosing myocardial infarction. The ECG training course aims to help nurses establish basic competence in interpreting ECG readings. However, in traditional instruction, learners usually have difficulty memorizing the meanings of different ECG wave forms, which could represent clinical symptoms, or even life-threatening conditions/arrhythmia. Some serious problems could cause death if the nursing staff do not make correct judgments in time. This paper reports an explorative study which investigated a novel pedagogy for nursing school students’ ECG learning performance using a contextual game. A 2 week experiment was conducted to compare the learning performances of the nursing students who played the ECG contextual game and those who learned with traditional instruction. The experimental results show that the students learning with the contextual game showed better learning performance, attitude, motivation, and critical thinking tendency than those who received the traditional instruction.

Global Perspective: "Be the Bridge" Collaboration: Our journey

Students in the McMaster School of Nursing, likein other Health Sciences programs, learn aboutevidence-based practice in a variety of hospitalsettings. However, best practice must also beprovided at a systems level in the community,guided by the principles of primary healthcare. During a third-year community healthcourse, we were placed in the South Shermanneighbourhood, a low-income, high-priorityarea in Hamilton. Within this community, welearned that improving health requires lookingbeyond the healthcare system. Therefore, wedeveloped an intervention to address the gapbetween services and residents in the area.After a successful pilot project, our initiative isnow becoming a full-scale partnership betweenMcMaster students and the Hamilton communitymembers who act as our hosts and teachers.

The effect of nicotine addiction education lecture on social nicotine dependence of university and nursing school students

The effect of nicotine addiction education lecture on social nicotine dependence of university and nursing school students

The Factors Affecting Satisfaction with College Life among Nursing School Students

The Factors Affecting Satisfaction with College Life among Nursing School Students

Evaluation of Validity and Reliability of Persian Version of the Gender Equitable Men-Scale (GEM-Scale) in Male Students, Iran

Introduction: Gender inequality and gender-based discrimination and violence undermine the opportunities and facilities of women and have negative effect on sexual and reproductive health behaviours. Given the importance of men's role in establishing gender equality, awareness of men's attitude towards gender equality is very important. However, there are no valid tools for measuring the attitude of men towards gender equality in Persian. Aim: This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the validity and reliability of Persian version of GEM scale in Male Students of Nursing and Midwifery school, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in 2015. Materials and Methods: This study was a methodological and validation study. A total of 232 male students of Nursing and Midwifery School of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences were selected through census method. The data collection tool was Persian version of GEM-scale. Factor analysis was used to examine the factor structure of the tool and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to investigate the reliability of the tool. The analyses were conducted using LISREL software version 8.8 and SPSS version 20. Results: The fitting indices of the confirmatory factor analysis model showed that the fitting of the two-factor model was appropriate (CFI, GFI, AGFI near 1, RMSEA index less than 0.1, and chi(2)/df ratio less than 3). Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole tool was obtained 0.79, showing that the internal reliability of the tool is also acceptable. Conclusion: The present study confirmed two-factor structure of the Persian version of GEM-scale, which includes inequitable gender norms subscale and equitable gender norms subscale. Therefore, this tool is suitable for assessing the attitude of men towards gender equality in Farsi-speaking men's society.

A Study on Perception of Nursing School Students on Long-Term Care Hospital

A Study on Perception of Nursing School Students on Long-Term Care Hospital

A Study of the Relationships Between Ego-Resilience, Self-Leadership and Satisfaction with Clinical Practice Among Nursing School Students with Experience of Clinical Practice Training

This study was undertaken as descriptive research with the goal of examining the relations between the levels of ego-resilience, self-leadership, and...

Task-shifting the provision of DMPA-SC in the DR Congo: Perspectives from two different groups of providers

ObjectivesTo document the experience of three groups of Family Planning service providers participating in task-shifting for the provision of subcutaneous depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA-SC) at the community level in the DRC. Study designThis article compares results from interviews with DMPA-SC providers in two separate pilot studies: 1) 53 medical and nursing school students teaching women how to self-inject (2016–2017); and 2) 34 lay community health workers providing DMPA-SC in rural areas of Lualaba (2017). All providers gave information on socio-demographic characteristics, recruitment,) training, supervision, experience and satisfaction with the provision of DMPA-SC. The paper examines variations in responses from the different provider cadres. ResultsDespite substantive variations in provider profiles in terms of age, educational and marital status, reported levels of satisfaction with offering DMPA-SC in the community were consistently high. Over 90% of all providers declared being comfortable or very comfortable interacting with FP clients, and more than three quarters of them were very comfortable performing an injection. Over 90% of Lualaba providers and over 80% of student providers gave correct responses to DMPA-SC protocol questions regarding referral of clients to facilities and side-effects management. The vast majority declared being (very) satisfied with their experience providing DMPA-SC. ConclusionsProviders with and without a clinical background, when properly trained and supervised, can provide DMPA-SC at the community level in both urban and rural settings of the DRC. Support strategies from the Family Planning environment (continuous contraceptive supplies and adequate referral system to fixed facilities) are key to engaging community health workers and sustainably leveraging task-shifting opportunities. Implication statementThis study provides additional evidence on the acceptability and feasibility of task-shifting in relation to DMCP-SC and supports further scale-up efforts.

The Evaluation of Risk Behaviour Scale Scores and Scale of Moral Maturity Scores Between Baskent University Term 2 Students of Faculty of Medicine and 2Nd Grade Students in Health Sciences Faculty School of Nursing

The Evaluation of Risk Behaviour Scale Scores and Scale of Moral Maturity Scores Between Baskent University Term 2 Students of Faculty of Medicine and 2Nd Grade Students in Health Sciences Faculty School of Nursing