This article will be featured in a future journal club. But the start point is to share this work with an emotional back story. We are delighted to publish Kimberley Livingstone's article. Our sympathy to her family, friends, and colleagues. Please read the beautiful words of her supervisors and think ‘What would Kim do?’ @_BonnieDean  @michelleeady  @UoWnursing https://t.co/tAPj6hFTtg — Nurse Educ Today Jnl (@NurseEducToday) April 10, 2024 ..read more

This post is for nurses and nurse educators looking into completing all components of research projects. Or ideally having some data statistian for support and guidance whilst you learn the correct statistical methods. Here are some links to different statistical packages. Personally, Ihave chosed ‘R’ to learn, but investigate which software package suits yourself and maybe suit your style, type or methodology of program of research. As ever, as more resources are discovered I will post them and link to this original post. Introduction to Python (Free): https://www.datacamp.com/courses/i ..read more

Journal Club Article Durrant, M., Oliver, C., Gottlieb, L., Frechette, J., Lavoie-Tremblay, M., & Cyr, G. (2024). Facilitated engagement approach: A novel approach to guide mentor conversations. Nurse Education Today, 106152. Background Mentorship has been recognized as a strategy to develop leadership competencies in clinical leaders and has been integrated into leadership programs.  “The mentor facilitates the development of a growth mindset by encouraging the mentee to see situations as challenges, by assisting them to question assumptions, and to seek learning opportunities ..read more

This post is a revisit to previous work on Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) and re-focuses on the germane cognitive load aspect. Germane refers to the work put into creating a permanent store of knowledge, your long-term memory.The germane processes are a function of the learners cognitive resources available and, also are attributible to the learner’s motivation.  Germane load refers to the effort needed to use memory and intelligence to process information into schemas. Germane load is thus how we process new information into long-term memory. R. Cuevas(ThinkIFIC) Additional Reso ..read more

Journal Club Article: Smith, C. (2008) Design-focused evaluation. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33:6, 631-645. [abstract] “The approach develops from the idea that all educational designs rely on instructional alignment, implicitly or explicitly, and succeed or fail to the extent to which the implementation of that alignment is effective.” Calvin Smith The Aim: to implicity link teacher activity, course design, and quality of learning to the intended learning outcomes. The How: Link the intended learning outcomes (ILOs) to students awareness of these learning strategie ..read more

These resources provide a quick summary table on types of learners, the resources, reasons and focus for learning across children, adults and self-directed learners. In the world of online and mobile learning, self-directed learning (Heutagogy) is considered a natural process. Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy by Univeristy of Illinois, Centre for Online Learning, Research & Service. The Difference Between Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Heutagogy by teachthought. Nursing Education Network Posts Heutagogy & Nursing Heutagogy: The Third Gogy Heutagogy presentation Adult Learning (Androgogy ..read more

Going straight to the source of expertise in all kinds of research, the work by Prof Trisha Greenhalgh has been essential to my own learning. The experiences of research participants allows for more in-depth understanding and identifying what matters most to the participant (patients, families and carers, nurses, multidisciplinary team). Resources Greenhalgh, T., & Taylor, R. (1997). How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). BMJ, 315(7110), 740–743. [abstract] And for resources on how to read and interpret all kinds of research papers: Greenhalgh ..read more

When starting out on your research journey whether that be focsued on education, clinical, or a combination, hearing about the journies of others can be very insightful. Well known nurse leaders talking about their motivations, drivers, barriers and challenges makes your own journey that more relatable. If these legends can struggle, then its okay to feel the same during a Masters, PhD, or post-doctoral research program of study. This resource aims to demystify clinical academia, explain what researchers do, their roles, how they got there and what advice they can offer to others looking to br ..read more

This editorial follows on nicely from recent posts focusing on clinical debriefing. It raises some areas to focus on future research in the field of debriefing around the cultural and psychological aspects. The cultural aspects include the differences across sub-cultures within healthcare, such as accomodatring differing priorities and challenges within departments, specialities, and regional such as rural to metropolitan. The implementation drivers and challenges to generate learning from debriefing in everyday practice also provide learning and research opportunity. Culture eats strategy fo ..read more

Background: The clinical debrief may be apporoached in the clinical setting for a variety of reasons, and maybe routine (pro-active) or prompted (reactive), often driven by a clinical or critical incident. But what approach to debriefing in the clinical setting, where time contstraints, continued clinical demands, variable shift patterns provide a challenge to delivering clinical debriefing in a planned and/or structured manner. This systematic review on Clinical Debriefing framework, contextualises the factors in clinical debriefing. Resource: Paxino, J., Szabo, R. A., Marshall, S., Story, D ..read more