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U Kyriacos

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PubMed1999

A nontraditional curriculum for the preparation of nurse educators.

The purpose of this article is to describe a bold and innovative program for the preparation of nurse educators in a developing country. This program was designed to anticipate the competing demands for radical change in both the health care system and the nursing educational system. Consideration was given to the need for a curriculum model that was flexible and broad enough to accommodate the educational and professional needs of a very diverse group of students regarding academic ability, culture, and language. The aim of the curriculum was to achieve the desire for meaningful, lifelong learning and personal growth, while maintaining academic excellence within a transformative and democratizing context.

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PubMed1996

Attitudes of diploma-prepared and graduate registered nurses. Towards nursing models: a comparative study.

UNLABELLED: Currently, nursing theory is not a South African Nursing Council requirement for pre-registration nursing education curricula. AIM OF THE STUDY: to determine registered nurses' (RNs) attitudes towards nursing models. METHODOLOGY: replication of McKenna's (1994) 20-item Likert-type self-completion questionnaire with adaptations. RESEARCH SETTING: A 1,600-bedded State-funded academic hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. STUDY SUBJECTS: Two groups: RNs who had nursing degrees and RNs who had a traditional diploma training. FINDINGS: Results from the Mann-Whitney U-test for independent samples indicates that at the 0.05 level of significance there was no difference in how each group of RNs responded to 19 statement items so there was not enough evidence to reject the Null Hypothesis for these statements (P < 0.05). However, as a group, the diploma-prepared RNs appeared to have a more positive attitude than the graduate RNs towards nursing models.

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PubMed1995

Developing nurses' moral reasoning skills.

Analysis of data from a Nursing Dilemma Test administered to 69 registered nurses employed at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town revealed a pattern of principled thinking in the groups with 5 to 9, 20 to 24, 25 to 29 and 30 to 34 years of clinical experience, whereas the group with the least clinical experience (0 to 4 years) showed no distinguishable pattern of thinking stages in moral judgement development.

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