Simulation and student learning: will NMC policy lead to lasting change?

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses a new initiative from the Nursing and Midwifery Council to increase clinical learning through simulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perinatal palliative care education: An integrative review.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this review was to analyze the effectiveness of teaching healthcare professionals in perinatal palliative care, methods of evaluating the teaching, and the teaching strategies used. DESIGN: An integrative review. METHODS: A systematic search was conducted for English language peer reviewed publications of any research design via SCOPUS, Medline/PubMed, EBSCOhost, Science Direct, ERIC, Web of Science, Wiley, Nursing Ovid, and ProQuest databases. Fourteen research papers published between 2002 and 2017 that met the selection criteria were included in the review. FINDINGS: All 14 studies considered perinatal bereavement education to be effective. Eight studies reported statistical improvements in knowledge, security/comfort in providing end-of-life care, or increased perceptions of the emotional care needs of bereaved families, after attending an educational program. Questionnaires or interviews were used to evaluate the educational programs. Innovative teaching strategies, in particular, were evaluated positively (e.g., simulation, discussion, and arts-based methods). CONCLUSION: Perinatal palliative care education is essential in pregradual education for midwives and neonatal nurses. Other research is vital for finding out the effectiveness of this education for pregraduate nursing students. Perinatal palliative care education programs need to be available in postgraduate education for professionals who encounter perinatal death and bereaved families in hospital and community care.

Midwifery in Iceland: From vocational training to university education.

Midwifery education is a foundation for health professionals' competence in providing quality healthcare for the benefit of women, their families and society. This paper describes midwifery and the development of midwifery education in Iceland. It examines policy and extensive reforms, from hospital-based vocational training in midwifery to an academic university education, and the impact on the scope of midwifery practice in Iceland. The university-based programme, with its emphasis on autonomy of the midwife, seems to have affected the context of home birth and strengthened midwives' role in primary healthcare. Education reform with a focus on evidence-based practice and midwife-led continuity of care has had limited influence within the hospital system, where the structure of care is fragmented and childbirth is under threat of increasing interventions. Research is needed on the role of education in supporting evidence-based practice, normal childbirth and reproductive health in the Icelandic context.

La enfermería, una ciencia interdisciplinaria / Nursing, an interdisciplinary science

El presente ensayo describe la complejidada en enfermería, desarrollando los aspectos teóricos y prácticos que permiten definirla como interdisciplina. La enfermería se autoconceptualiza como la ciencia universal del cuidado de la salud humana. Si bien el arte del cuidar es uno de los más antiguos, en su calidad de profesión y de ciencia es joven y moderna, pues se inició en el siglo xix. Es ciencia porque su teoría se sustenta en patrones observados de la realidad, que han dado lugar a la formulación de razonamientos, hipótesis, principios y leyes organizados por medio de un método científico. En el curso del siglo xx surge la utilización de la noción de complejidad, acuñada por Edgar Morin en su pensamiento complejo, cuando se refiere a la capacidad de interconectar distintas dimensiones de lo real, promoviendo un enfoque interdisciplinario, transdisciplinario y holístico para una mejor comprensión de la realidad. ¿Es posible comprobar esta complejidad, esta singularidad interdisciplinaria en enfermería? ¿Cuáles son los signos de dicha complejidad? A través de la revisión de la literatura disciplinaria y de conceptos del pensamiento complejo elaborado por Edgar Morin, pretendo dar una respuesta innovadora a estas dos preguntas (AU)

This essay describes nursing as a complex science. It discusses the theoretical and practical aspects that convey its interdisciplinary nature. Nursing auto-conceptualises itself as the universal science of human healthcare. While the art of caring is ancient, nursing is a young and modern science and profession, which only began in the xix Century. Nursing is a science: its theory is based on patterns observed, resulting in the development of reasoning, hypotheses, principles and laws organized according to the scientific method. During the course of the xx Century, the term complexity was coined by Edgar Morin in Complex Thinking for a Complex World. The term referred to the capacity of interconnecting reality’s different dimensions, promoting a holistic and interdisciplinary approach for a better comprehension of the latter. Our questions are: is it possible to prove complexity, understood as an interdisciplinary particularity in nursing? And if yes, which are the signs of such complexity? Through a review of the discipline’s literature and concepts attached to Morin’s complex thought, we intend to offer an innovative answer to our inquiries. Is it possible to confirm this complexity, this multidisciplinary singularity in nursing? What are the signs of such complexity? Through the review of the disciplinary literature, we intend to give an innovative answer to these two questions (AU)

Midwifery education: Challenges for the future in a dynamic environment.

Iceland and the Netherlands both have a long history of midwifery education and midwifery practice. Starting as a midwife requires a direct entry BSc program in midwifery in The Netherlands, where Iceland requires a nurse-midwife model. This paper presents an overview of midwifery education and its dynamic in these countries. Subsequently, we explore two most notable components that were identified as important for the future of midwifery education. In the concluding section, we reflect how these components support the scope of practice as presented in the Lancet framework for quality maternal and newborn care.

Desarrollo de un nuevo modelo de Practicum. Reto y oportunidad de formar en roles avanzados en el Grado de Enfermería / Development of a new Practicum model. Challenge and opportunity to form in advanced roles in the Nursing Degree

El propósito de la educación en Enfermería es formar profesionales con actitudes, habilidades y conocimientos necesarios para llevar a cabo sus funciones de manera eficiente. Cada vez hay mayor demanda de profesionales de enfermería más competentes para el manejo de información, uso de nuevas tecnologías y aplicación de intervenciones complejas en el cuidado de las personas en diferentes entornos de cuidado. Para dar respuesta a esta demanda, desde la Escuela Superior de Ciencias de la Salud Tecnocampus, se apuesta por modelo de Practicum avanzado más integrador y acorde a la formación teórica y práctica, que permita al estudiante una visión holística, ya no tanto de las patologías concretas, sino de los procesos asistenciales en forma de itinerarios. El trabajo que aquí se presenta tiene el objetivo de dar a conocer este modelo y las herramientas evaluadoras del estudiante utilizadas durante el mismo

The purpose of the Nursing Education is to train nurses with skills, attitudes, aptitudes and knowledge to enable them to develop their function in an efficient manner. An increasing demand of nurses more competent to a data-management system, to use new technologies and application of complex interventions on different places of nursing care, is requested. To respond to this demand, the Escuela Superior de Ciencias de la Salud Tecnocampus (ESCST), has been emphasized for an advanced and integrative Practicum Model in accordance with the theoretical and practical training, that it enables students to have an holistic view. Not just of specific pathologies, but also the assistance processes by means of form of itinerary. The work that is presented has the aim to make know this model and which are evaluation tools that are used during the development for the assessment of student's practical training

The Shrinking of Formalized Nutrition Education in Health Professions Curricula and Postgraduate Training.

The quantity of formalized nutrition education is shrinking in curricula of health professions, such as physicians, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists. The current nutrition education being taught in U.S. schools of healthcare professionals does not appropriately prepare students for identification of patients at nutrition risk or management of undernourished hospitalized patients with specialized nutrition therapies. In U.S. schools of pharmacy, parenteral nutrition is considered a highly specialized and advanced practice so little time is devoted to this area and more attention is focused on chronic disease state management (ie, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and congestive heart failure). Nutrition support fellowships for physicians and nutrition support residency programs for pharmacists have dwindled in number over the years so that only a handful of these healthcare professionals are produced each year from the remaining formalized programs. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and dietitians can positively affect patient care, but each profession must first determine how best to integrate basic and applied nutrition concepts into their professional curricula and training programs. There must also be consensus among the healthcare professions as to the depth of nutrition education and the stage of training at which these integrations should occur. Only by having these crucial conversations among all disciplines will we be able to develop new strategies to expand nutrition education in the training of future medical practitioners.

Terapia tópica para heridas crónicas: contribuciones de un módulo de enseñanza a distancia para el conocimiento de estudiantes de enfermería / Terapia tópica para feridas crônicas: contribuições de um módulo de ensino à distância para o conhecimento de estudantes de enfermagem / Topical therapy for chronic wounds: contributions of a distance learning unit to the knowledge of nursing students

Estudio cuasi experimental tuvo como objetivo evaluar el desempeño de estudiantes de enfermería en test de conocimiento antes y después de participar en un módulo de enseñanza a distancia sobre terapia tópica para heridas crónicas utilizando Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizaje (AVA-Moodle). Desarrollado en tres etapas: aplicación del pre-test, implementación de la intervención en AVA-Moodle y aplicación del post-test. Participaron 37 estudiantes en el último año del Curso en Enfermería de Institución Pública de Enseñanza Superior del Estado de São Paulo. Hubo aumento estadísticamente significativo del promedio de aciertos obtenidos en el test posterior a la intervención en todos los dominios e ítems evaluados. La utilización del AVA-Moodle constituye una estrategia de apoyo para estudiantes de grado en enfermería en la potenciación y ampliación del acceso al conocimiento sobre temas relevantes para la atención de enfermería (AU)

Estudo quase-experimental que objetivou avaliar o desempenho dos estudantes de enfermagem em teste de conhecimento, antes e após a participação em um módulo de ensino a distância, sobre terapia tópica para feridas crônicas usando o Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA-Moodle). O estudo foi desenvolvido em três etapas: aplicação do pré-teste, implementação da intervenção no AVA-Moodle e aplicação do pós-teste. Participaram 37 estudantes do último ano do Curso de Enfermagem de uma Instituição Pública de Ensino Superior do estado de São Paulo. Houve aumento estatisticamente significativo, no número médio de acertos, obtidos no teste de conhecimento após a intervenção educativa em todos os domínios e itens avaliados. A utilização do AVA-Moodle pode ser uma estratégia de apoio aos estudantes de graduação em enfermagem para potencializar e ampliar o acesso ao conhecimento sobre temas relevantes para a assistência de enfermagem (AU)

The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to assess the performance of nursing students on a knowledge test before and after their participation in a distance learning unit on topical therapy for chronic wounds using a virtual learning environment (VLE Moodle). The study was conducted in three stages: application of a pretest, implementation of the intervention in the VLE Moodle, and application of a post-test. The participants were 37 students from the last year of a nursing undergraduate course in a public higher education institution in the state of São Paulo. There was a statistically significant increase in the mean number of correct answers obtained on the knowledge test after the intervention in all fields and items assessed in the test. The use of the VLE Moodle may represent a supporting strategy to strengthen and broaden the access of nursing undergraduates to knowledge on relevant topics for nursing care (AU)

Recognition of foreign nurses degree in Germany ­ procedure, quantity, distribution and decision of applications / Anerkennung ausländischer Pflegeabschlüsse in Deutschland - Verfahren, Anzahl, Verteilung und Entscheidung der Anträge

Background: Qualified foreign nurses are entering the German nursing-care system. Aim: How has the migration of nurses been developing in recent years? Method: Evaluation of official statistics on recognition of qualifications. Results: There is a growing demand for recognition of nursing qualifications acquired abroad; this demand is concentrated on densely populated regions. Conclusions: Migration of care workers is increasing and needs to be analysed by nursing sciences.

STRATEGIES FOR FUTURE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY EDUCATION.

Major challenges can be expected for nurse education in the near future in response to changes in healthcare practice, technology, regulation and funding. The advancement of nursing and midwifery professions is largely dependent upon what occurs at the teaching-research-practice nexus.

Acupuntura para intervenção de diagnósticos de enfermagem: avaliação de experts e especialistas de enfermagem / Acupuncture to intervene in nursing diagnosis: assessment of nursing experts

Objetivo: Apresentar consenso de expertises em diagnósticos de enfermagem e especialistas em acupuntura acerca da aplicação da técnica na intervenção de diagnósticos de enfermagem. Métodos: Estudo qualiquantitativo, descritivo-exploratório, desenvolvido com metodologia Delphi eletrônica. A amostra foi constituída de trinta enfermeiros expertises e especialistas da área, de diferentes instituições de saúde e educação em diversas regiões do país. Resultados: O consenso foi alcançado na primeira rodada, com alto nível de concordância em ambos os grupos totalizando percentil superior a 79%. Conclusão: O consenso formulado permitiu concluir que os diagnósticos de enfermagem podem sofrer intervenções por meio da acupuntura, podendo tanto ser aplicada por enfermeiros especialistas quanto indicada por outros não especialistas, mas que reconheçam na acupuntura uma possibilidade interventiva.

Reviewing education challenges and solutions for health professionals in community care.

The biggest asset of the NHS is its staff. Health professionals working in the community are faced with a number of challenges to maintain and develop their knowledge and skills in their clinical practice. NHS England's Five Year Forward View describes the need for change, identifying the necessity to reshape care delivery, harnessing technology, and driving down variations in quality and safety of care. This article explores some of the challenges faced by community health-care providers and reviews possible solutions to meet community health-care needs for now as well as the future.