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A M Arseneault

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PubMed1999

Adapting the CAUSN accreditation process for emerging models of nursing education in Canada.

This paper highlights the accreditation issues raised by new and emerging models of baccalaureate nursing education and program delivery in Canada. It suggests ways of adapting the accreditation process to address recent changes. Nursing degree programs now offered by universities include programs at several sites, collaborative programs with partner institutions at multiple sites, and programs offered primarily through distance education. The accreditation program developed by the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing (CAUSN) provides a mechanism for monitoring the quality of a nursing education program and promoting the growth of the school that offers the program. Since the decision to undergo accreditation signifies a major commitment on the part of a nursing program, it is essential that the accreditation process be adaptable to meet the needs of evolving nursing education and program delivery models, and that it be fair, equitable, and credible.

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PubMed1994

Resettlement without the support of an ethnocultural community.

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe the lived experience of immigrating to a region where there is no ethnocultural community of one's culture. Twenty culturally isolated immigrants to Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, of different ethnic origins were interviewed in depth about their resettlement experience: the Giorgi modification of the phenomenological method was used to analyse these data. The findings suggest that being a culturally isolated immigrant entails a sense of discontinuity between the past and the present and produces a period of heightened sensitivity to others. Informants felt propelled from their country into an alien environment and were suddenly immersed into a new culture. Their emotional energies were directed towards getting a foothold in their new society. This was a highly stressful process that was both encouraged and discouraged by pervasive thoughts of the future which permeated the participants' existence.

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Accreditation of university schools of nursing: the Canadian experience.

The goal for Canadian nurses is a baccalaureate degree for entry into nursing practice. An accreditation programme has been developed and the response has been encouraging. Below, an overview of how nursing education has evolved in Canada and how the accreditation programme can help nursing educators to develop or revise nursing education standards.

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