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Preparing undergraduates for practice placements in gerontological nursing

27 November 2007

Nursing Older People

Care

An innovative approach was employed to help undergraduate student nurses prepare for a practice placement working with older people. The method involved the use of...

Chronic resistant atypical pedagogical syndrome: a new disorder

01 October 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

In this exploratory clinical paper I outline a ‘pedagogical syndrome’ that has emerged from postmodernist, but, especially, contemporary educational angst. In...

Reclaiming nursing: making it personal

01 June 2008

Mental Health Practice

General

Few ideas in psychiatry gain acceptance overnight. It took 50 years for Albert Ellis’s rational emotive therapy and Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy to gain acceptance...

Teaching patients in post-operative eye care: the demands of day surgery

28 April 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In this article, the author examines how advances in day case surgery have changed ophthalmic surgical units and the need for patient education. Relevant theories of...

Assessment and learning in post-registration nurse education

19 January 2000

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Assessment in nurse education concentrates too much on academic abilities and fails to measure the practical nursing abilities of students. This article argues for a...

Strategies to help students learn effectively

21 April 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

All qualified nurses are involved in teaching and learning. This article presents four vignettes of adult learners training to be nurses and examines the factors...

Nursing theory: its importance to practice

30 July 2003

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Background Nursing theory should provide the principles that underpin practice and help to generate further nursing knowledge. However, a lack of agreement in the...