The relationship between feedback and evaluative judgement in undergraduate nursing and midwifery education: An integrative review

AimThis integrative review aims to explore the relationship between feedback and evaluative judgement in undergraduate nursing and midwifery education.BackgroundResearch in higher education has shown that feedback practices can lead to students’ developing evaluative judgement; thought critical for performance improvement and life-long learning. While literature in nursing and midwifery education has not yet employed the term ‘evaluative judgement’ explicitly, there might be similar concepts and practices that seek to develop students’ judgement of performance that sustain learning beyond the immediate task.DesignAn integrative review of the nursing and midwifery feedback literature.MethodsIn February 2020, six online databases (CINAHL, ProQuest, Scopus, ERIC, PsycINFO, Ovid MEDLINE) were systematically searched for literature published between January 1989-February 2020. Synonyms for feedback and evaluative judgement were used to inform our search. This review included a rigorous team-based, five-stage approach: (1) identifying the problem; (2) conducting the search; (3) evaluating the data; (4) analysing the data; and (5) presenting the integrative review.ResultsA total of 1408 studies were initially retrieved with 543 duplicates. 865 abstracts were screened using eligibility criteria, resulting in the exclusion of 835 studies. Thirty full-text studies were appraised for quality. Eighteen studies with diverse methodologies achieved a medium-high quality score for inclusion in data analysis. Conceptions of feedback and evaluative judgement were identified in all studies; despite none using the term 'evaluative judgement' explicitly. Thematic analysis of the studies resulted in seven themes: conceptions of feedback, purposes of feedback, sources of feedback, modes of feedback, conceptions of evaluative judgement, purposes of evaluative judgement and relationships between feedback and evaluative judgement.ConclusionsWhile our findings supported contemporary higher education research, the feedback-evaluative judgement relationship is novel in nursing education. We encourage educators to design feedback activities privileging students’ active engagement through dialogic feedback, reflection and self-assessment, to develop their evaluative judgement of practice.     

Vocación y profesionalismo: reflexiones de los estudiantes catalizadas por el cine de Spielberg

The medical profession has a marked vocational sense that is closely linked to its ethical dimension. However, there are doubts about the role that undergraduate studies are playing in their development. In order to encourage reflection on this issue, a seminar was held with students and teachers, developed in 3 phases: a) free presentation by students about what they considered to be the medical vocation; b) presentation by professors of the theoretical framework of medical education, followed by the viewing of several scenes of films directed by Steven Spielberg that facilitate reflection on the meaning of the ethical and human components of medicine, and c) open discussion between students and teachers. The main conclusions were analysed: it is worth creating spaces for reflection on the vocational dimension of medicine throughout undergraduate studies. This, in some way, should already be considered in the selection and access procedures to medical school. In the teaching task it is essential that the lecturers are seen as role models, as well as providing individualised tutoring that includes vocational development. Thus, it is necessary to promote training that goes beyond the acquisition of knowledge and skills, paying attention to the management of emotions, the approach to the ethical problems, and the education of attitudes. Early contact with clinical activity, from the beginning of studies is considered a decisive factor to motivate students before the immense theoretical burden they have to face.     

A Higher Order Interpolation Scheme of Finite Volume Method for Compressible Flow on Curvilinear Grids

A higher order interpolation scheme based on a multi-stage BVD (Boundary Variation Diminishing) algorithm is developed for the FV (Finite Volume) method on non-uniform, curvilinear structured grids to simulate the compressible turbulent flows. The designed scheme utilizes two types of candidate interpolants including a higher order linear-weight polynomial as high as eleven and a THINC (Tangent of Hyperbola for INterface Capturing) function with the adaptive steepness. We investigate not only the accuracy but also the efficiency of the methodology through the cost efficiency analysis in comparison with well-designed mapped WENO (Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory) scheme. Numerical experimentation including benchmark broadband turbulence problem as well as real-life wall-bounded turbulent flows has been carried out to demonstrate the potential implementation of the present higher order interpolation scheme especially in the ILES (Implicit Large Eddy Simulation) of compressible turbulence.     

Nursing academics’ languages of legitimation: A discourse analysis

Aim

To identify the proclaimed bases of Irish nursing academics’ identities as academics and to interrogate the ways in which they legitimate nursing as an academic discipline.

Background

Six years after pre-registration nursing education in Ireland transferred to the higher education sector, tensions continue to exist concerning the status and legitimacy of the discipline and those who claim to profess it.

Method

The languages of legitimation of senior nursing academics were elicited in the deliberately argumentative conversational context characteristic of many discourse analytic studies. These languages were analysed in terms of four of the building tasks of language: knowledge, politics, relationships and identities.

Findings

Irish nursing academics are unable to credibly and convincingly resist representations of their discipline as lacking legitimacy in academia. Indeed, they themselves construct academic nursing as a fragmented field, prone to colonisation and subversion by a plethora of other discourses, including medical, management and industrial relations discourses.

Conclusions

Senior nursing academics in Ireland need to urgently consider how nursing in the academy can reconfigure its relationships with clinical nursing, increase its intellectual autonomy, enhance its internal coherence and cohesiveness, strengthen the epistemic power of its knowledge base and critically evaluate the ways in which past practices inform its present, and whether and to what extent they should shape its future.     

高职护生学习倦怠现状及影响因素分析

目的 了解高职护生学习倦怠现状，并对其影响因素进行分析。方法 采用分层随机抽样法对陕西省10所高职院校2015级、2016级高职护生进行大学生学习倦怠量表和大学生学习倦怠影响因素问卷调查。结果 共发放问卷2 050份，回收有效问卷1 914份，问卷有效率93.37%。1 914名高职护生学习倦怠总分为（58.11±9.97）分，3个维度由高到低依次为：行为不当、成就感低、情绪低落。多元线性回归分析显示，学习态度、学习主动性、专业兴趣、焦虑、学习成绩、就业压力、有无兼职/社会实践经历、性别、年级是高职护生学习倦怠的影响因素，可解释学习倦怠水平46.4%的变异量。结论 高职护生学习倦怠处于中等水平，教育者应采取措施改善护生的学习以及心理状态，同时关注高危人群，以降低护生学习倦怠水平，提高护生在校学习质量。     

高职《仪器分析》课程教学改革现状与措施

高职院校为了提高学生的学习效果和分析仪器的规范操作技能,越来越重视《仪器分析》教学改革研究和实践。本文对近年来《仪器分析》课程教学存在的问题以及课程教学改革现状与措施等方面进行了综述,以期为各高职院校进行《仪器分析》教学改革提供借鉴与参考。     

医学高职课堂小演讲与学生综合能力培养的研究与思考

培养探索与创新等综合能力是医学高职教育的核心任务,课堂小演讲是训练综合素质的重要方式,以讲授为主的教学法为对照,将“小演讲”引入助产专业《医学遗传与优生》课程教学,经笔试、总结和教学反馈等方式评价显示教学效果显著,小演讲是学生综合能力培养的重要方法。