Fostering cultural competence: a multicultural care plan.
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Biomedical subjects
L Bucher
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The effects of imagery abilities and mental rehearsal on learning a nursing skill.
Nursing demands competency in numerous psychomotor skills. Using theory from Paivio (1986), Anderson (1976, 1985), and Bandura (1986), this attribute-treatment study explored the interactive effects of imagery skills and various combinations of physical and mental practice on learning a skill. The author assessed 108 nursing students for imagery abilities and randomly assigned them to a physical practice (PP), mental rehearsal (MR), or a combined mental rehearsal plus physical practice (MR + PP) group. After learning to apply and remove sterile gloves, subjects were evaluated on their performance. A 3-factor ANOVA was performed and a significant main effect for practice condition was obtained. Subjects in the MR+PP condition performed significantly better than subjects in the MR condition but not the PP condition. These findings have important implications. Incorporating the use of mental rehearsal as an adjunct to physical practice in an effort to facilitate skill acquisition was found to be beneficial.
Analysis of Variance↗
Predicting NCLEX-RN performance: cross-validating an identified classification procedure.
This study was an attempt to cross-validate a procedure from an earlier study for predicting NCLEX-RN performance. In the original study, a discriminant function was developed on 313 baccalaureate nursing graduates (1988 through 1990), which used 15 variables to correctly categorize more than 91 per cent of them on NCLEX-RN performance. This study used 142 subjects who graduated in 1991 and 1992 to evaluate the adequacy of the classification procedure. Subjects in this more recent sample differed significantly from those in the first on several variables, including SAT scores, physiology grades, and nursing grades. Eight-four per cent of the subjects in the cross-validation sample were correctly classified using the original discriminant function. More than 62 per cent of failures and 87 per cent of passes were correctly categorized. These results suggest that it is statistically and ethically sound to use this discriminant function to identify future students in danger of NCLEX-RN failure.
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Evaluating the affective domain. Consider a Likert scale.
An affective component of learning exists in every educational program developed, yet evaluating this aspect remains a challenge for nurse educators. An attitudinal scale should be considered one means of discovering nurses' attitudes and beliefs relative to a particular learning experience. Practical guidelines for developing and improving Likert scales, as well as interpreting scores, are the focus of this article.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗