Nursing Education
The Nursing Philosophy, Pedagogy, and History group (NPPH) is an integral component of the Areas of Excellence (AoE) initiative. This group is dedicated to fostering philosophical, pedagogical and historical scholarship within the Faculty of Nursing and the nursing community.
Items in this Collection
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Provincial prenatal record revision: A multiple case study of evidence-based decision-making at the population-policy level
Download2009
Mansi, O., Olson, J., Williams, B., Montgomery, P., Edwards, N., Semenic, S., Premji, S.
Background: There is a significant gap in the knowledge translation literature related to how research evidence actually contributes to health care decision-making. Decisions around what care to provide at the population (rather than individual) level are particularly complex, involving...
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2012
Myrick, F., Jackman, D., Yonge, O.
Rural nursing is recognized as a unique health care domain. Within that context, the preceptorship experience is purported to be an important approach to preparing safe and competent rural practitioners. Preceptorship is the one-to-one pairing of a nursing student with a professional nurse who...
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2012
Yonge, O., Foley, V., Luhanga, F., Myrick, F., Billay, D.
The term evidence-based practice refers to the utilization of knowledge derived from research. Nursing practice, however, is not limited to clinical practice but also encompasses nursing education. It is, therefore, equally important that teaching preparation is derived from evidence also. The...
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Reliability and validity of the Alberta Context Tool (ACT) with professional nurses: Findings from a multi-study analysis
Download2015
Mallick, Ranjeeta., Estabrooks, Carole A., Squires, Janet E., Norton, Peter G., Cummings, Greta G., Hutchinson, Alison M., Hayduk, Leslie.
Although organizational context is central to evidence-based practice, underdeveloped measurement hinders its assessment. The Alberta Context Tool, comprised of 59 items that tap 10 modifiable contextual concepts, was developed to address this gap. The purpose of this study to examine the...
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2010
Myrick, F., Yonge, O., Jackman, D.
Historically, in Canada, rural nurses provided health care that incorporated not only care of disease processes and acute illness but also care related to social and political aspects of need and advocacy. With the advent of urbanized, acute hospital care and the focus of disease and cure, the...
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2006
This review presents findings from a critical integrative review of research into barriers to and facilitators of self-care from the perspective of people with diabetes. The review was motivated by a perceived need to understand self-care from the perspective of those living with this chronic...
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Self-employed nurses as change agents in healthcare: strategies, consequences, and possibilities
Download2014
Purpose: This article reports on ethnographic research that investigated how self-employed nurses perceive the contemporary healthcare field, what attributes they possess that facilitate their roles as change agents, what strategies they use to influence change, and what consequences they face...
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2003
Paul, P., Olson, J. K., Douglass, L., Goddard, N., Simington, J., Clark, M. B.
The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which the spiritual dimension is addressed in Canadian university undergraduate nursing curricula. An exploratory descriptive design was used to gather data from faculty members at Canadian university schools of nursing. Eighteen (62%) of...
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Strategies for Engaging Undergraduate Nursing Students in Reading and Using Qualitative Research
Download2012
Spiers, J.A., Paul, P., Weaver, K., Jennings, D.
Teaching undergraduate nursing research courses can be challenging. There is substantial research explicating why this is so, but little has been written about strategies to enhance students’ ability to engage in and learn about research, especially in the context of large classes offered over...
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2004
Myrick, F., Ferguson, L., Yonge, O.
Faculty who engage students as participants in their qualitative research often encounter methodological and ethical problems. Ethical issues arise from the fiduciary relationship between faculty and their students, and violations of that relationship occur when the educator has a dual role as...