The impact of Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) revalidation on the professional identity of academic staff in a higher education institution: A qualitative study

Aims: To explore Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) revalidation as a process experienced by nursing and midwifery academics and its impact on their sense of professional identity. Background: The introduction of revalidation nurses and midwives in the UK in 2016 caused some anxiety amongst registrants in higher education. Design: A qualitative study using a purposeful sample involving thematic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with academic staff. Methods: Ten registrants completed a semi‐structured interview in a higher education institution. Results/Findings Clinical credibility: participants were self‐conscious about time away from practice but retained strong links with clinical settings reviewing evidence and reports of current practice. The revalidation process: staff were generally positive about NMC revalidation. Professional identity: participants identified as nurses and midwives first and academics second. Conclusions The findings replicate previous studies about professional identity among healthcare professionals in higher education; this study reports the contribution of revalidation amongst nurses and midwives in higher education institutions

Investing in People

Foundations have long created programs to provide grants to individuals—most often in the form of fellowships, scholarships, and prizes. Several of these programs have become so prominent that they are now institutions in and of themselves. Consider just a few examples: the Pulitzer Prize, Fulbright Program, and MacArthur "genius" awards. Governments, as well as foundations large and small, fund individual support programs.The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has generously allowed the authors of this report to examine its portfolio of individual support programs to explore what the authors believe are some of the strategic fundamentals underlying this type of programming that could be applied to future individual support grantmaking. The purpose of this study is to inform those interested in individual support programs about not only some of the strategy considerations underlying this type of grantmaking but what these programs can be expected to achieve—and under what circumstances.

Jefferson Review - Fall 2017

INSIDE Features 6 - Introducing the New Jefferson: One Name. Two Legacies. Infinite Possibilities. 10 - The PhiladlephiaU Story: A History of Change and Innovation 18 - Two Alumnae, One Vision: A New Home Base for All Graduates 2 - The Provost\u27s Column 5 - The Families We Choose: A Message from Elizabeth Dale On Campus 22 - College of Biomedical Sciences 22 - College of Health Professions 23 - College of Nursing 24 - College of Pharmacy 26 - Carol Ammon, BSN \u2717, MBA: A Brand-New Nurse, on a Mission 28 - Alia Salam, MPH \u2717: Helping Refugees on the Ground 30 - Class Notes 30 - In Memoriam 32 - 10 Years with JCIPE - And Beyond: Transforming Patient Care, Education, and Jefferso

Job satisfaction of New Hampshire nursing faculty

The nursing shortage is a growing concern with the shortage of nurse faculty restricting entry of qualified students. A descriptive study of faculty from 11 New Hampshire nursing schools was conducted to determine nurse faculty satisfaction and factors contributing to satisfaction. A modified version, sent electronically of the Nurse Faculty Satisfaction Questionnaire measured faculty satisfaction. Of 159 faculty invited 74 (47%) participated. Overall, NH nurse faculty were highly satisfied as nurse educators with 78.4% rating overall satisfaction of 8 or higher on a 0 - 10 scale. The top three satisfiers were opportunity to work independently, sense of accomplishment from work, and the variety of activities. The highest level of dissatisfaction was rate of pay for position (60.8%), amount of work required (31.1%), and degree of technical support available (29.8%). While NH nurse educators would recommend a nurse become a nurse faculty, pay is a serious detractor in recruiting new faculty

Cultural safety: Cultural considerations

Over the course of your nursing professional education, you will study the developmental tasks and the principles of health promotion across the life span. You will learn to conduct numerous assessments, such as a complete health history, a psycho-social history, a mental health assessment, a nutritional assessment, a pain assessment, a suicide risk assessment and a physical examination of a patient. However, depending on your reactions to the person there may be wide variations in the information you gather in these assessments and in the findings of the physical examination. In the 1980s there was a change in western nurse education that recognised the interaction between culture and health and since then many nursing degrees include cultural considerations in their Bachelor Programs. It is now imperative that you, as a health care provider, come to understand how culture influences health care

Loma Linda Nurse - Vol. 25, No. 01

Contents FEATURES 4 | Full Circle – Dexter Emoto and Mao Kimura 6 | Mentorship 8 | A Place for Excellence 10 | New Scholarships at the School of Nursing LLUSN HIGHLIGHTS 12-17 | ALUMNI NEWS 18-23 | HOMECOMING 24-27 | COMMENCEMENT 28-32 | ACADEMICS 33-35 | FACULTY UPDATEShttps://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/loma-linda-nurse/1021/thumbnail.jp