Teaching research to undergraduate community nursing students: reflections upon curriculum design

Despite the widespread inclusion of research education within nursing courses, there remain a number of tensions about the purpose, content, and philosophy underpinning such programmes. Of particular concern is the importance of establishing appropriate teaching and learning strategies in order to ensure that research education is enjoyable and effective. These issues are explored within this paper, and provide the background context for this discussion on the redesigning of a research module within an undergraduate programme for post-registration community nursing students. The paper highlights the rationale for undertaking this change, and discusses the educational frameworks, which were used in order to develop the programme. An initial evaluation suggests the redesigned curriculum is a positive development that has enhanced both the teaching and learning of research

Accounts of practice [Editorial]

We study, in detail, the supersymmetric quantum mechanics of charge-(1,1) monopoles in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills-Higgs theory with gauge group SU(3) spontaneously broken to U(1) x U(1). We use the moduli space approximation of the quantised dynamics, which can be expressed in two equivalent formalisms: either one describes quantum states by Dirac spinors on the moduli space, in which case the Hamiltonian is the square of the Dirac operator, or one works with anti-holomorphic forms on the moduli space, in which case the Hamiltonian is the Laplacian acting on forms. We review the derivation of both formalisms, explicitly exhibit their equivalence and derive general expressions for the supercharges as differential operators in both formalisms. We propose a general expression for the total angular momentum operator as a differential operator, and check its commutation relations with the supercharges. Using the known metric structure of the moduli space of charge-(1,1) monopoles we show that there are no quantum bound states of such monopoles in the moduli space approximation. We exhibit scattering states and compute corresponding differential cross sections.Comment: 38 pages, minor corrections and updates to reference