Biomedical subjects

Ann D Sprengel

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Using software to direct test construction and improve test performance.

Over the past 5 years, a test analysis software program was developed and is being successfully used to modify faculty-constructed nursing tests administered to small classes. The interplay of instruction, students, and test items were variables considered while developing a practical, efficient program to produce test performance printouts designed to be used with little need for statistical interpretation. This test performance profile software is now available as freeware for individual nursing faculty.

Computer-Assisted Instruction↗

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Reducing student anxiety by using clinical peer mentoring with beginning nursing students.

Beginning nursing students' initial clinical experience can be stressful and intimidating, particularly for young students having no prior healthcare experience. The authors discuss a peer mentoring project that was used to reduce anxiety during the students' first hospital experience. Both the mentored freshmen and the sophomore medical-surgical students who served as mentors reported benefits such as less anxiety, a less stressful clinical learning environment, and an increase in student interaction at various levels in the curriculum.

Adolescent↗