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Basic academic preparation of foreign-educated nurses: a base for developing continuing education courses.

This international investigation was conducted to determine curricular factors that may explain the high failure rate on the Nurse Certification Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) of foreign-educated nurses (FENs) seeking licensure in the United States. The framework was the existence of basic knowledge as a starting point for adapting and modifying practices (Alfano, 1971). Onsite visits were used to conduct a curricular review of basic academic preparation of FENs at 19 nursing programs in 10 selected countries. Curricular factors found common to all schools and country-specific elements may explain the academic difficulties of FENs relative to licensure and nursing practice. Delineated curricular elements discussed can serve as a base for developing continuing education courses for foreign-educated nurses.

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[Professional development and specialization in nursing at the service of citizens].

Political, economical and social changes which are continuously occurring in today's society have a decisive influence on health. Of particular importance are those changes related to the aging of the population, morbidity and the prevalence of chronic diseases which create significant health problems which in turn present significant challenges to curative type medicine. Scientific and technological advances permit a higher degree of sophistication for treatments, increasing life expectancy while at the same time posing questions which must be answered.

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Nurturing the seeds of learning: a professional development initiative for hospital-based nurse educators.

This article describes a collaborative initiative between two healthcare organizations to promote professional development of nurse educators from hospitals in neighboring regions. Information collected from a needs survey and a preregistration questionnaire was used to develop didactic and interactive sessions of a 1-day conference. Several brainstorming sessions were utilized to engage participants and to facilitate networking. Participants responded positively to this professional development conference in meeting their learning needs.

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PubMed1999

Empowering lifelong learners.

How can nurse managers provide staff with equitable, economical opportunities for professional development education? One hospital's point accrual system makes nurses more active in their own professional development.

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PubMed2005

Workplace assessment for licensing in general practice.

With the redesign of general practice training implicit in the Department of Health's programme of reform, Modernising Medical Careers, there is the opportunity to bring summative assessment and the MRCGP examination together into a unified assessment framework for licensing. It is likely that assessment in the workplace will play a central role in such a process. Workplace assessment is of high validity and has the potential to reconnect teaching and testing in general practice. Five principles to underpin the design of a workplace assessment are proposed, namely that it should be: competency-based, developmental, evidential, locally assessed, and triangulated. Successful implementation of workplace assessment will not only serve to reduce the current testing burden on trainees, but will also harness the involvement of medical teachers. In doing so, general practice has the opportunity to create a powerful tool for professional development.

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PubMed1996

Clinical supervision for expanded practice in ENT.

Changes in health-care delivery have led to opportunities for expanded practice for nurses. Expanded practice can involve sharing responsibilities with medical staff. Clinical supervision is an important element in the development of professional skills.

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PubMed2005

Authorship: an ethical dilemma of science.

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: The scientific and technological progress that has taken place since the 1960s has brought an ever-growing volume of scientific research, and inflation in co-authorship. Over this period, it has been observed that an increasing number of publications have listed authors or co-authors whose participation in the published research was minimal or even nonexistent. The objective of this work was to analyze reports in the literature regarding misconduct in authorship: its types, chief causes, consequences and ethical guidelines; and to outline proposals for greater ethical commitment in scientific publication. DESIGN AND SETTING: Narrative review undertaken at Faculdade de Medicina de Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil. METHODS: Analysis of publications about authorship using the Medline, Lilacs and SciELO databases. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Frequent types of misconduct were gift authorship and divided and redundant publications. The chief causes of these practices seem to be the pressure exerted by academia and the desire for social and professional development. Such factors have brought an increase in unethical behavior. This bias in science continues despite the criteria defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Vancouver group. RECOMMENDATIONS: Various actions are proposed for educational institutions, research development agencies, regulatory agencies and professional associations. The aim is to establish an evaluation policy that gives primacy to the quality of publications and sets ethical principles for scientific research.

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