A survey of the teaching and learning of biological sciences on undergraduate nursing courses

Wharrad, Heather; Allcock, Nick; Chapple, Mary

doi:10.1016/0260-6917(94)90004-3

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“…Research exploring these disadvantages is in transition, having to incorporate new insights that challenge the orthodoxies of the past (Atkin, 1998). Further research is therefore needed to determine the appropriate content and depth of biological sciences knowledge required by nurses and the links between health inequalities and nursing education (Akinsanya and Hayward, 1980;Akinsanya, 1987;Pearson and Clarke, 1994;Wharrad et al 1994;Jordan and Reid, 1997).…”

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Haemoglobinopathies and health-care provision for ethnic minorities

Khattab¹,

Rawlings

Ali

2005

Br J Nurs

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The level of training and competence in dealing with haemoglobinopathies (which mainly affect ethnic minorities in the UK) may not be totally adequate among nurses. Nurses indicated that they received little or no information in their teaching for working from a multiracial perspective and what they had learned was through experience and personal research since qualifying as nurses. Knowledge of the biological basis of inheritance, methods of acquisition of thalassaemia and sicklecell anaemia and the ethnic profile of people affected by these conditions may not be totally adequate among nurses. Many nurses wanted more training, including those who had already received instruction, since this was described as 'far too vague', 'not constructive', 'minimal', or 'embarrassingly insufficient', recommending that instruction be given by a sickle-cell anaemia/thalassaemia counsellor with a contribution from patients. A combination of poor quality, or lack, of instruction, together with time and resource pressures, is responsible for this limited understanding, resulting in insufficient awareness of the health needs of ethnic minorities leading to inequalities in healthcare provision.

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Haemoglobinopathies and health-care provision for ethnic minorities

Khattab¹,

Rawlings

Ali

2005

Br J Nurs

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“…Nursing academics comprise only 35% of the lecturers teaching the bioscience subjects in New Zealand (Nicol, 2002) and in the UK only 15% of basic science lecturers had nursing qualifications (Wharrad, Allcock, & Chapple, 1994). More recent data is not available for international or national programs.…”

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Exploring Australian undergraduate pre-registration nursing curricula: Where do science subjects fit?

Logan

Angel

2014

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“…Nursing students often have variable or slight STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) backgrounds upon entrance (Lymn et al, 2008;McKee, 2002;Wharrad, Allcock, & Chappie, 1994), and display lower self-efficacy in relation to technology (Blake, 2010). Despite this lower self-efficacy with technology, and limited STEM backgrounds, nursing students also selfreport positive experiences with reusable learning objects (Blake, 2010;Stiffler et al, 2011).…”

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Learning a technical language: The modality effect in nursing students' retention of new vocabulary

Wieland¹

2018

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This study explores the modality effect as it applies to beginning nursing students, andwhether reading or audio recordings are more effective teaching formats for the highly technical vocabulary and pharmacological terms used in psychiatric nursing. Past research on health science students indicates that personal learning preferences may also have an impact on modality and learning. Nursing students have specific characteristics that influence personal learning preferences, and the use of digital audio recordings for learning, which also makes technical vocabulary especially challenging.

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A survey of the teaching and learning of biological sciences on undergraduate nursing courses

Cited by 42 publications

References 8 publications

Haemoglobinopathies and health-care provision for ethnic minorities

Haemoglobinopathies and health-care provision for ethnic minorities

Exploring Australian undergraduate pre-registration nursing curricula: Where do science subjects fit?

Learning a technical language: The modality effect in nursing students' retention of new vocabulary

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