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Assessment during professional experience
Helminen, Tossavainen and Turunen (2013) undertook a descriptive survey to capture the views and experiences of students, teachers and mentors on their final clinical placement. The authors described the on-going dilemma and lack of clarity of assessment of competency and fitness to practice during clinical experience. They discuss the range of grading systems used and […]
Social media and nursing practice
Casella’s and Mills (2014) stated social media has the potential to profoundly connect nurses to their clients and to other professionals. The authors discussed a future where nursing integrated social media into health care for the purpose of improving client or patient out comes. Casella’s and Mills (2014) use the nursing process of […]