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.
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2009
Faculty in Canadian undergraduate nursing programs have come to rely on preceptorship as the primary model for teaching and learning during the final clinical course. A focused ethnography was completed in order to examine undergraduate nursing students’ experience of rural hospital preceptorship...
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Taking the patient to the classroom: Applying theoretical frameworks to simulation in nursing education
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Upon completion of their education, nursing students are expected to practice safely and competently. Societal changes and revisions to nursing education have altered the way nursing students learn to competently care for patients. Increasingly, simulation experiences are used to assist students...
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2011
Dhamani, K.A., Paul, P., Olson, J.K.
Spirituality, as a basic characteristic of humans and a contributor to human health, is regarded as part of nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to examine how Tanzanian nurses understand spirituality and spiritual care. Using the qualitative method of interpretive description, fifteen...
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2011
Yonge, O., Myrick, F., Ferguson, L.
The purpose of this article is to report preceptor perceptions of the process of evaluating nursing students in a rural setting. A grounded theory methodology was used to carry out this study to ascertain what is actually going on in the rural preceptorship experience. Twenty-six preceptors from...
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The changing nature of interactional patterns associated with learning to write in one baccalaureate nursing program
Download2014-08-29
Chaudoir, S., Lasiuk, G., & Trepanier, K. (accepted, under review). Journal of Writing Research, Special Issue. 2016. The article will present findings from a case study that explored the discursive interactional patterns of students learning writing assignments across four years of one Canadian...
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2012
Yuan, H., Williams, B., Fang, J.
Background: High-fidelity simulation (HFS) has been proposed as a novel, supplemental teaching-learning strategy to enhance students’ confidence and competence in nursing practice. Aim: To describe available evidence about the effects of HFS on students’ confidence and competence within nursing...
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The contribution of the Grey Nuns to the development of nursing in Canada: Historiographical issues
Download1994
The purpose of this article includes describing the current state of historical knowledge about the Grey Nuns of Montreal, identifying issues which shed light on this state of knowledge and proposing new avenues of scholarship. A review of the literature shows that the nursing role of the Grey...
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2015
Zieber, Mark P., Williams, Beverly
The experience of nursing students who make mistakes during clinical practice is poorly understood. The literature identifies clinical practice mistakes as a significant issue in nursing practice and education but there is very little research on the topic. This study used a grounded theory...