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UCAS released data in December 2023, showing a mix of trends within the UK's higher education nursing sector. A total of 48625 students applied for nursing courses, reflecting a complex picture of...
The regulation of nursing has changed since 1984, when the previous regulatory body, the United Kingdom Central Council, was created. The role of the mentor was brought to the fore in nurse education...
Student engagement is a term used to describe the degree of interest and enthusiasm that students show in the pursuit of learning, and the principle that learning improves when students are engaged...
A teaching observation allows the observer (peer) to extract information from the observed (the teacher) and assess the student learning and educational environment..
This article reflects on the authors' collective experience of nursing education over the past 3 years in a university in the north west of England. The authors would encourage future participatory...
‘A technique to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences, often immersive in nature, that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully safe, instructive and...
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic reached its peak in the UK from March to May 2020, the ‘clap for carers’ campaign demonstrated the strong public appreciation of nurses and other key workers...
Pulmonary fibrosis is a form of interstitial lung disease that causes fibrosis (scarring) in the lungs. The most common type of PF is IPF (ALA, 2020). ‘Idiopathic’ is defined in the Cambridge...
The advanced level practice role started within the nursing profession in the 1960s in the USA. In the UK, advanced practice has had a mixed history since the role was first defined in 1993 by the...
The Cochrane and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines informed processes (Liberati et al, 2009)..
Purposive sampling was adopted for this study to ensure participants had a similar amount of experience of OL and to create a homogenous group. The inclusion criteria were that participants had to be...
The factors contributing to graduate nurses' pulse oximetry knowledge deficits are not clear but inadequate education may be an associated factor. It has been suggested that the origin of these...
This study aimed to understand service improvement experiences of undergraduate adult nursing students in their final year of university and up to 12 months into their graduate practice. The following...
‘Providing support and guidance enabling new registrants to make the transition from student to accountable practitioner.’ .
Tables 1 –4 provide key information taken from the NMC Emergency Standards for Nursing and Midwifery Education (NMC, 2020). The standards are then explored in terms of the implications for...
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