Being Invisible: Stereotype Threat in an Undergraduate Nursing Program

Abstract

Nursing faculty and administrators may better support ethnic minority nursing students through graduation by having an awareness of the implications of stereotype threat. [J Nurs Educ. 2018;57(3):159-162.].

The ubiquity of uncertainty: a scoping review on how undergraduate health professions’ students engage with uncertainty

“…Other teaching strategies included: problem-based learning, clinical teaching, humanities teaching, simulation, team-based learning, small group learning, tactical games, online discussion of anatomy topics, and virtual patients. Reflection and reflective practice were also mentioned within the literature Biley & Smith 1999 ; Ironside 2003 ; Lingard et al 2003a , b ; Finnerty & Pope 2005 ; Koh et al 2008 ; Maudsley et al 2008 ; Rowan et al 2008 ; Wolpaw et al 2009 ; Ganesh & Ganesh 2010 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 ; Wayne et al 2011 ; Curtis et al 2012 ; Wolpaw et al 2012 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Landeen et al 2013 ; Gibson et al 2014 ; Han et al 2014 ; Kristiansson et al 2014 ; Nixon et al 2014 ; Chan et al 2015 ; Han et al 2015 ; Sawanyawisuth et al 2015 ; Drummond et al 2016 ; Fernandez et al 2016 ; Gormley & Fenwick 2016 ; Hayward et al 2016 ; Johnsen 2016 ; Nguyen et al 2016 ; Ali et al 2017 ; Bentwich & Gilbey 2017 ; Neve et al 2017 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Gaufberg et al 2018 ; Gowda et al 2018 ; Helmich et al 2018 ; Lemmon et al 2018 ; Mangione et al 2018 ; Porteous & Machin 2018 ; Young-Brice et al 2018 ; He et al 2019 ; Kashbour et al 2019 ; Liou et al 2019 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ; Brondani & Donnelly 2020 ; Fagundes et al <...>…”

“…Learners’ experiences of uncertainty, could be categorised as: (i) uncertainty related to the practice of healthcare itself (Ali et al 2017 ; Nixon et al 2014 ; Sobal and Deforge 1991 ; Carr et al 2001 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Ganesh and Ganesh 2010 ; Markey et al 2018 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ); (ii) uncertainty related to the educational process (Biley and Smith 1999 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ; Mc Carthy et al 2018 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Leh 2011 ; Stone et al 2015 ; Maudsley et al 2008 ; Gonzalo et al 2020 ); and (iii) uncertainty related to the learner’s self (Ganesh and Ganesh 2010 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Schéle et al 2011 ; Vae et al 2018 ; Young-Brice et al 2018 ; Handwerker 2018 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 , 2012 ; Huijer et al 2000 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ). Uncertainty emerged when learners experienced differences between themselves and others (Ion et al 2015 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Curtis 2014 ; Martinez and Lo 2008 ; Markey et al 2019 ), unfamiliar situations, or issues lacking easily distinguishable solutions (Ion et al 2015 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Matchim and Raetong 2018 ; Warner et al 2001 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Bassett et al 2015 ).…”

“…A large proportion of the literature examined individual learner differences with some evidence that gender, age, background, discipline, and stage of training could impact on how learners interact with uncertainty (Hancock et al 2017 ; Bingyou 1991 ; Geller et al 1990 ; Landeen et al 2013 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 ; DeForge and Sobal 1989 ; Eley et al 2017 ; Young-Brice et al 2018 ; Lodewyk et al 2020 ; Jowsey et al 2020 ). However, the heterogeneity of study designs made it difficult to draw general conclusions.…”

Exploration of Mindfulness Among Ethnic Minority Undergraduate Nursing Students

“…14 Effects of stereotype threat include feelings of self-doubt, hypervigilance, impaired memory, and gaps in academic achievement. 14 Although ethnic minorities, especially African Americans, have increased awareness of racism, trait mindfulness was found to be positively associated with active coping strategies and planning. 15 Practicing mindfulness can promote adaptive coping strategies to buffer the negative consequences of stereotype threat.…”

“…15 Practicing mindfulness can promote adaptive coping strategies to buffer the negative consequences of stereotype threat. 14,15…”