Student courage: An essential for today's health education

Abstract

This concept analysis helps fill the gap for nursing students transitioning into a professional role as well as clarifying a nursing student's role in patient care.

Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

“…It is also a cogent fact that, inadequacies in conducive communication skills have been identified as a one of the major causes of frustration (Nuffer et al, ; Khalil et al, ) and loss of IM in health care students (Carpenter et al, ; Melin‐Johansson et al, ; Ebert et al, ). Students have specifically stated that lack of appropriate communication skills have impeded their ability to provide psychosocial support to their clients (Ezell et al, ; Emerson, ; Gibson, ).…”

“…Students report that effective mentoring prepared them to learn from their errors (Budden et al, ; Ommering and Dekker, ), and fostered an openness to failures (Croffoot et al, ; Hennessy et al, ). Optimal mentorship has also been reported to provide students with altruistic guidance (Abeysekera and Dawson, ), clarity (Fernandes et al, ; Gibson, ), and moral and institutional support (Kirch and Ast, ; Walker et al, ) and aided in building resilience (Kong et al, ; Nuffer et al, ; Khalil et al, ). Students across all health care disciplines also report that productive mentorship empowered their decisions (Brumpton et al, ; Yan et al, ) and strategies (Lowe et al, ; de Paiva et al, ; Sadowski et al, ), and enabled them to identify goals (Brass et al, ; Mabel and Britton, ) and establish a sense of direction in both personal (Haque et al, ; Tackett et al, ) and academic issues (Miura et al, ; Mestdagh et al, ).…”

“…Their teaching was thus primarily led by an educator (Smith and Shoffner, 1991;Orsini et al, 2015), and student input was very limited (Graf et al, 2007;Havyer et al, 2017). This practice of teaching was accepted by students belonging to the Baby Boomers and Gen-X generations (Strombach et al, 2016;Ciliberto et al, 2018) who have a high respect for hierarchy (Gibson, 2018), and a willingness to yield to authority (Buetow, 2007;Walker et al, 2016;Manzi et al, 2017). However, the current generations of Millennials (Rothmaler et al, 2017) and Centennials (Amini et al, 2018) expect a more equitable treatment due to lesser regard for a strict chain of command (Gonzalo et al, 2016;Rowland and Kumagai, 2018).…”

“…Typically, health care students are idealistic (Rodriguez Zivic et al, 2013;Emerson, 2017) and excited about the choice of their profession (Barie and Ho, 2012;Queen and Hess, 2018;Yang and Shanks, 2018), and hence enter the educational environment with an eagerness to improve the human condition (Delany et al, 2015;Kenney et al, 2018;Melin-Johansson et al, 2018). This enthusiasm should not be misconstrued (Mahoney et al, 2016;Gibson, 2018), but rather nurtured by modifying teaching strategies to make learning more efficient and enjoyable (Ezell et al, 2013;Sluka et al, 2014;Nuffer et al, 2017;Khalil et al, 2018). The succeeding sections present an inductively derived conceptual model to enhance IM in millennial students.…”

“…These issues have also been identified as predisposing factors in the development of stress (Rodriguez Zivic et al, 2013;West et al, 2016) and burnouts (Schubert, 2016;McConville et al, 2017;Yan et al, 2017;McLuckie et al, 2018) in health care students. Though generational differences have acquired a negative reputation as being an impediment to learning (Everly et al, 1994;Gibson, 2018;Riley, 2018), very few educational approaches have attempted to specifically redress this issue. Hence, rather than dwelling on these contentious issues, educators should realize that these differences are inevitable (Hennessy et al, 2016;Bing-You et al, 2018), and concentrate on bridging this chasm (Murphy et al, 2004;Cook and Artino, 2016).…”