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Successful and Unsuccessful Clinical Nursing Students
The recent publication of a study that describes the characteristics of successful and unsuccessful clinical performance (Lewallen and Debrew 2012) of nursing students provides pertinent information that can be used to develop strategies to recognise and remediate potential at risk students early in their professional experience placements. The authors discuss the difficulties associated with evaluating […]
YouTube as a source of clinical skills education
In last weeks blog I mentioned the use of media clips, whereas Duncan, Garwood-Ross and Haigh (2013) undertook a study to assess the quality of clinical skills videos available on YouTube video sharing site. The authors indicated that the quality of the video material available regarding the 10 clinical skills reviewed was variable. This paper […]