Mentoring undergraduate nursing students in palliative home care research

The development and evaluation of a short-term international student research and educational program

“…International nursing programs could promote a collegial and collaborative approach to addressing global health challenges [ 8 ]. Other international nursing programs reported that evaluation evidence may facilitate improvement in nursing science, global research, and exchanges of academic education practices [ 6 , 7 , 14 , 17 ]. Long-term collaboration among international institutions can increase doctoral nursing education and impact global healthcare.…”

“…The visit implementation step-by-step process is described in the following order: 1) the initial contact via online (Zoom) meeting to discuss the overall goals of the visit; 2) the second Zoom meeting took place to guide the visa application process (the required documentation for the J1-Scholar visa was completed with assistance from the University’s Office of Global Affairs and the Global Engagement Office. ); then, 3) subsequent Zoom meetings with the lead mentor, who has expertise in the student’s research field of interest, further elaborated on the learning activities to achieve the goals [ 17 ]. Specifically, the international student’s doctoral research was focused on designing and testing a rural home-based nursing intervention for older adults.…”

“A life without a supervisor is like a seed that never grows”: Students’ Experiences of Undergraduate Nursing Research Supervision

“…However, the quality of experience among the supervised students is somehow dependent on the interactions, communications and supervisory styles that lead to mutual trust, respect and obligation experience. This becomes impetus in the conduct of this one of a kind undertaking apart from the challenges and issues that previous studies mentioned (Kostovich & Thurn, 2013;Piamjariyakul et al, 2021). Hence, this study came into existence to explore nursing students' lived experiences of undergraduate research supervision.…”