Compassion in Healthcare – National Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference 2015 Title: A measure of compassion in health care students Authors: Margaret Vick, Gudrun Dannenfeldt and Bill Shaw Institution: Wintec, Hamilton, New Zealand

It appears with the increasing expansion of the role of the health care workers as well as advances in technology, health care may have lost some of its previous emphasis on compassion. The importance of compassion as a core attribute of health care has been highlighted by a recent worldwide movement (political and professional). However, in New Zealand, the word ‘compassion’ is rarely mentioned in major policy documents or professional competency guidelines. Compassion is often compared to empathy, altruism, mindfulness and sympathy. Compassion, however, also involves sensitivity to self and others, as well as motivation to action with a goal. There are theoretical approaches to compassion, there is a neurobiological basis, but to measure compassion and its impact in the context of health care is difficult. Components of compassion include instrumental (psychomotor skills, behaviour and knowledge, cognitive) and expressive (affective, emotional, motivational and interpersonal) aspects. The purpose of the study is to measure the perception of compassion amongst students in a variety of health care degree programmes. Quantitative data will be collected using a ‘Compassion for Others Scale’ administered to three different cohorts of students in two health care degree programmes (nursing and social work). We will present preliminary findings from our research that shows the compassion perceived by the students at different levels of their education. This will allow comparison between different cohorts of students and could lead to the expansion of the project into a longitudinal study. This presentation will be of interest to others teaching health-related programmes

A measure of compassion in health care (nursing) students

This presentation to the ANEC conference in Sept 2017, was on current research related to compassion in undergraduate nursing students, which was part of a longitudinal study. The presentation outlined the methodology and results identified, which indicated that they suitability of the methodology used for obtaining information about comppasion was sound. The results show that students at Wintec enter study programmes to become health care professional with compassionate attributes. This information could be used by educators to strengthen and maintain compassion attributes by maintaining and reinforcing the values, hopes and aspirations that brought the students into the profession. Compassion should be monitored in all healthcare related professions as a critical factor in maintaining and preserving this vital aspect of healthcare delivery

Addressing Obstacles to Success: Improving student completion, retention and achievement in science modules in applied health programmes, with particular reference to Maori

The overall aim of our research project is to remove “the problem” of achievement in science for students in the nursing and midwifery programmes. Past students have reported science as difficult and time-consuming, and their achievement results reflected this. Science was seen as a barrier to overall course success (Gibson et al, 2005). Other research (Zepke, et al, 2006; Otrel-Cass et al, 2006) has focused on problems of retention and completion in the tertiary sector, thus locating the student or the tertiary context as the problem. Our research rests on a different proposition, arguing that the curriculum is at the root of “the problem”. We are adjusting the science curriculum in an attempt to make the links between science and practice more explicit, so that students might see greater relevance for their learning, make richer links to prior experience and more explicitly link the science to their chosen careers

The Impact of the kuraCloud Learning Platform on Student Motivation and Ownership of Learning.

Use of kuraCloud have a positive impact on motivation to learning in 85% of students. Overall 84% of students thought there was an increase (or no change)in their ownership of learnin

The Impact of the kuraCloud Learning Platform on Student Motivation and Ownership of Learning.

Use of kuraCloud have a positive impact on motivation to learning in 85% of students. Overall 84% of students thought there was an increase (or no change)in their ownership of learnin

Assessing the impact of a cloud-based learning platform on student motivation and ownership of learning

Has the kuraCloud learning platform increased student motivation and ownership of their learning? Cloud-based educational technologies are used with the expectation that they will assist students to become life-long learners. These technologies give students more control over their learning and this has been shown to motivate them to work harder (Yurco, 2014). This research examines the impact of a recently implemented cloud-based learning platform (kuraCloud) on student motivation and ownership of their learning. All students enrolled in the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programme at Wintec will be invited to participate in an online survey. Areas that will be explored to assess motivation include whether students feel more motivated, whether they feel encouraged to seek extra information about topics, and whether their participation is influenced by particular aspects and exercises within the KuraCloud lessons. Areas that will be explored to assess ownership of learning include whether the KuraCloud lessons helped them to learn independently, to problem solve, and to understand the topic content and the lesson concepts. The research has not been completed yet, but the results will be presented at the conference. It is expected that the results will inform future planning to enhance student motivation and ownership of learning using this technology

Assessing the impact of a cloud-based learning platform on student motivation and ownership of learning

Has the KuraCloud learning platform increased student motivation and ownership of their learning? Cloud-based educational technologies are used with the expectation that they will assist students to become life-long learners. These technologies give students more control over their learning and this has been shown to motivate them to work harder (Yurco, 2014). This research examines the impact of a recently implemented cloud-based learning platform (KuraCloud) on student motivation and ownership of their learning. All students enrolled in the undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programme at Wintec will be invited to participate in an online survey. Areas that will be explored to assess motivation include whether students feel more motivated, whether they feel encouraged to seek extra information about topics, and whether their participation is influenced by particular aspects and exercises within the KuraCloud lessons. Areas that will be explored to assess ownership of learning include whether the KuraCloud lessons helped them to learn independently, to problem-solve, and to understand the topic content and the lesson concepts. The research has not been completed yet, but the results will be presented at the conference. It is expected that the results will inform future planning to enhance student motivation and ownership of learning using this technology

A staff development model for nurses working in intensive care units in private hospitals

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We made the change - can you? A narrative of experiences in programme design

This paper is a narrative account of the journey of a health lecturer, a science lecturer and an instructional designer in meeting the changing needs of health service delivery to post graduate nurses in New Zealand. The challenges included changing the design of the e-learning component of a 300 hour post-graduate children's health assessment course from content delivery to a student centred constructivist focus using asynchronous discussion forums. Making this change included the lecturers meeting challenges in relation to coordinating the delivery of "hard" knowledge with "soft" knowledge. This was an evolutionary process which required a paradigm shift in the lecturers' concept of teaching and learnin