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D A Coffin

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PubMed1994

Matching instructional preference and teaching styles: a review of the literature.

There has been considerable impetus in nursing education to identify ways of ensuring that students utilize fully their opportunities for learning and achieve their fullest potential. To this end an avenue of research has evolved which sets out to identify the preferred learning styles of students. Claims are advanced that matching these preferences with teaching styles is important for maximizing learning for nurses. An evaluation of the current research on learning preferences and matching teaching styles is provided using evidence from both nursing and non-nursing areas. What has emerged from this review is that the age of the learner may influence learning preference, and that individual rather than group characteristics must be considered. There are conflicting findings about the importance of matching learning preferences and delivery styles, but multiple approaches to the delivery of materials are generally advocated with both theoretical and clinical materials.

Choice Behavior↗
PubMed1992

Staff turnover among hospital nurses.

Nursing staff turnover remains a financial concern to public as well as private institutions, and it has an impact on staff morale and working practices. Evidence suggests that staff turnover could also have a detrimental effect on patient care. Numerous studies have examined the reasons why staff leave their jobs, but these have often produced conflicting findings and have frequently relied upon bivariate correlation or multiple regression techniques. The availability of analytical techniques such as structural modelling provides an opportunity to examine several aspects of turnover behaviour simultaneously, and overcome some of the methodological difficulties encountered by prior research. This study involved 221 female nurses working full-time in hospitals to examine aspects of the nursing turnover model. Using modelling techniques, this current study found job satisfaction and participation at work to be important variables in the turnover process. This is in keeping with other models of nursing turnover.

Adult↗