TL;DR: The framework created by Wenger is debated and the role of the CoP as an innovative way for educators and practitioners to collaborate to develop and manage new knowledge and emerging practice is reviewed.

TL;DR: It emerged that although nursing was not everybody's first career choice, all participants had sought a career which involved caring and family or friends in the profession played a role in influencing participants' career selection.

TL;DR: An analysis of the concept of experiential learning indicates that it is the product of reflection upon experience, with the nature of the reflection and the quality of the experience, being significant to the overall learning.

TL;DR: The results suggest that blended learning integrating e-learning and face-to-face instruction in the classroom is useful for enhancing medication knowledge, suggesting that it can be an effective component in nurse education programs.

TL;DR: Findings add to the evidence that the active and self-directed nature of PBL encourages students' ability to think critically, be tolerant of the ideas of others and evaluate conflicting information before reaching a conclusion.

TL;DR: The main thrust of the paper is that, if the 'Bologna Process' were achieved, it would have a positive impact on the health care systems and populations of participating countries as well as their economies.

TL;DR: Simulation was positively received by both students and mentors as it was apparent that it offered scope for interdisciplinary learning that could be broadened to inter-professional applications.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to deepen understanding of how mentors actually make judgements about students' clinical competence, using a critical incident technique in interviews with a convenience sample of students and mentors from two different geographical regions in the UK.

TL;DR: Attempts to retain students in the first semester may be futile as these students may be unsuited or uncommitted whereas there is greater scope to retain those who leave in the second semester.

TL;DR: The first underscores the responsibility of health care organisations to sustain and develop clinical supervision and the second points to the potential benefit that clinical supervision may have on patient outcomes.

TL;DR: By highlighting dying and death in the curricula, nursing schools appeared to be giving nursing students an opportunity to face the issue of death, thus helping them to be better prepared to help their patients and their families to do so.

TL;DR: This study can guide nursing educators in the design of classroom and clinical instructional strategies to respond to individual needs in order to enhance student success.

TL;DR: The content structure of the study unit based on the ASSET model, a model for actioning spirituality and spiritual care education and training in nursing, and the various teaching methods used are described.

TL;DR: The ethical basis of teaching student nurses about the concepts of spirituality and spiritual care is explored by reporting the findings from the first year of a 3 year investigation.

TL;DR: Results suggest that first year student nurses were disillusioned with the reality of clinical nursing and that their expectations of nursing were not realised, and perceived that paperwork, completing tasks and meeting targets were dominant features of nursing work at the expense of patient contact and communication.

TL;DR: It is suggested that if one of the major aims of nurse higher education is the development of culturally competent practitioners, study abroad is deserving of far greater attention than is currently the case.

TL;DR: Positive feedback from students sheds light on the importance of teaching undergraduate students on the spiritual dimension in care and implies that such a study unit is to be integrated within the curriculum of nursing education for the benefit of nurses themselves and to enable delivery of holistic care.

TL;DR: The findings of this grounded theory study reveal some interesting implications not only regarding the staffing of preceptorship programs but also the process of preparing faculty as to how to provide preceptors with sufficient and appropriate support throughout the preceptorship experience.

TL;DR: The theoretical underpinnings of Q-methodology are explored and its application as a research method in the field of nurse education is illustrated, providing a brief illustration of its use in mental health nurse education.

TL;DR: Although each participant shared instances where ESL may have contributed to his/her academic difficulty, the participants did not perceive that ESL was the primary reason for course failure, but attributed it to the discrimination and stereotyping they experienced.

TL;DR: An overview of learning-centered education, a systematic method for de-crowding the curriculum, and a discussion of challenges encountered are presented.

TL;DR: The positive attitude of student nurses to this scenario strongly supports its use to help learners to acquire knowledge and awareness when real life placements in these settings are not available and extend their knowledge after coming across similar situations in practice.

TL;DR: A systematic review of the PBL literature revealed a paucity of evidence supporting or confirming the application of PBL in the clinical setting, supporting further research into the role of Pbl as a teaching strategy for undergraduate nurses in theclinical practice setting.

TL;DR: Nurse academics must make a decision about whether engaging in clinical practice is beneficial to their career and the students they teach, and there are arguments for and against (as well as barriers to) them doing so.

TL;DR: Compatibility is the most important research variable that affects the behavioral intention to use the online nursing courses, and the research combines the innovation diffusion theory and technology acceptance model, and adds two research variables, perceived financial cost and computer self-efficacy to propose a new hybrid technology accepted model to study nursing students' behavioral intentions.

TL;DR: The study provides some evidence that a short intensive educational programme on alcohol and drug can be effective in improving educational outcomes and further research should be undertaken with undergraduate nurses specialising in different branch of nursing.

TL;DR: The development and testing of the Urinary Incontinence Practice and Knowledge Scale as well as the results of nurses' practice and knowledge about urinary incontinence give information towards adequate education and training for nurses aswell as nurse assistants.

TL;DR: A questionnaire-based investigation into the knowledge sources used by nurses in two Turkish university hospitals, and whether these knowledge sources were related to sociodemographic variables, found evidence that was not based on research constituted the first three most frequently used sources of knowledge.

TL;DR: It is argued that new professionalism is problematic and nursing education faces particular challenges and negotiating service-education partnerships which reflect service user involvement and enable the integration of wider notions of competence.