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Manal Zeinhom Ahmed, Hasan Touama, and Ahmad Rayan, “Students' Perspectives about
Nursing Education.” American Journal of Educational Research, vol. 3, no. 3 (2015): 288-291.
doi: 10.12691/education-3-3-6.
The article was most specifically about, Students' Perspectives about Nursing Education.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
1. Manal Zeinhom Ahmed Faculty of Nursing, Menofia University, Menofia, Egypt / Currently,
Dean, Faculty of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan
2. Hasan Touama Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Zarqa University, Zarqa,
Jordan
3. Ahmad Rayan Faculty of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan

CONTENT:
Manal Zeinhom Ahmed, Hasan Touama, and Ahmad Rayan, the authors, wrote this article
primarily to evaluate the nursing education, taking the students perspectives into
considerations in order to identify areas where improvement is needed in nursing education,
regarding the course contents and teaching methodology. The main aim of the study were:
 Program validation,
 Curriculum improvement,
 Meeting objectives,
 Evaluation of innovation, and
 Understanding the curriculum in whole or in part.
To realize the aim of the study mixed methods using concurrent triangulation design were used
where eleven theoretical nursing courses in the first semester were subjected to evaluation by the
students.
Quantitative data obtained from students were analyzed using descriptive statistics, additionally,
open-ended questions (qualitative data) were read many times and themes were extracted.
Finally, results of quantitative data were compared with qualitative data results to confirm the
outcomes.
 Results indicated that students' perspectives regarding course content were strongly positive,
which suggests that students have a clear vision of course content.
 Results indicated that online materials were clear, comprehensive and logical.
 Students coming to class after clinical experience reported feeling tired from working and
studying at the same time.
 High agreement among all students about the instructors’ methods of teaching was
observed.
 The negativity reported by students was the unavailability of hand-outs.
 A noisy environment of the class and students' interruptions were issues that impeded
understanding of course content.
EVALUATION:
The researcher innovatively evaluates the nursing curricula taking the students
perspective into considerations as students are the one to be benefited from the course and the
result interpreted suggests that the Instructors should carefully consider the aspects that
positively or negatively affect teaching/learning process.

2. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
Masoud Khodaveisi, Mehrnoosh Pazargadi, Farideh Yaghmaei, and Ali Bikmoradi “Challenges
for evaluation system in Iranian nursing education”. Articles from Journal of Research in
Medical Sciences: The Official Journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences are provided
here courtesy of Medknow Publications. Received 2012 Apr 24; Revised 2012 Jun 14; Accepted
2012 Jun 28.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
1.Masoud Khodaveisi: Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and
Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
2. Mehrnoosh Pazargadi: Nursing Management, School of Nursing and Midwifery Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3.Farideh Yaghmaei: Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Medical Management, Hamadan
University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
4. Ali Bikmoradi: Address for correspondence: Dr. Mehrnoosh Pazargadi, Department of
Nursing Management, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical
Sciences,Tehran,Iran.

CONTENT:
The article was most specifically to explore the challenges for effective evaluation of nursing
education perceived by academic managers. The author has done a qualitative study was using
face-to-face, interviews with academic managers in medical universities and at the Ministry of
Health in Iran. All interviews were recorded digitally and analyzed by qualitative content
analysis.
 The author have categorized the challenges under 3 themes, each included 3 subthemes:
 Managerial issues (inefficacy of management, inadequacy of policies and strategies,
ineffective evaluation planning) ;
 Administrative issues (inefficient and affected evaluators, inappropriate implementation,
inefficacy of approaches and tools) ;
 Structural issues (inappropriate culture, clinical education complexity, lack of alumni
follow-up system).

The results emphasize the need for educational evaluation development in nursing, including
systematic and regular educational evaluation planning focusing on efficient feedback system
and regard to excellence models. The comprehensive educational evaluation requires
participation, involvement, and collaboration with the Nursing Board, Nursing ministerial office,
faculties of nursing, and Nursing Organization. Thus, it is necessary to better designate current
educational evaluation systems, policies, approaches, methods, and procedures.

EVALUATION:
The problems faced by the Irani nurses can be closely related to the issues in Indian settings, a
similar type of study can be carried out in India to assess how the higher authority perceives the
effectiveness of nursing education in India.
3. BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
Selcuk Karaman: “Nurses’ perceptions of online continuing education”. BMC
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/11/86 Medical Education 2011 11:86.
doi:10.1186/1472-6920-11-86.

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Selcuk Karaman: Open Education Faculty, Ataturk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey.
Email:[email protected]

CONTENT:
This article is about Nurses’ perceptions of online learning as a convenient way of getting
professional training, using a sample of 1041 Registered Nurses (RNs) data were collected for
this quantitative study to reveal perception levels and relationship on online continuing
education. Data were collected through an online instrument and descriptive and inferential
analysis techniques using SPSS 18 was performed.
The result showed that Nurses generally have positive perceptions about online learning. A
significant difference was seen between nurses who used computers least and those with the
highest computer usage. Neither nurses’ ages nor lengths of working experience are significantly
related to perceptions of online programs. The difference between perceptions of nurses living in
urban areas and those living in rural areas was not significant.
It was observed by the authors that nurses regard online learning opportunities as suitable for
their working conditions and needs. Nurses should be provided with continued training through
online learning alternatives

EVALUATION:
This article is very useful as it promotes the use of technology in nursing education making it
more simplified, online learning provides flexibility to nurses in both urban and rural areas.
Nurses working in small-scale health centers may get the chance to extend their knowledge
hence they need not leave their job for perusing higher education at universities. Online
continuing nursing education will definitely be a boon for nurses who could not continue her
education due to some unforeseen circumstances.
4. Pulcini, J., Jelic, M., Gul, R. &Loke, Y. A. (2010) An International Survey on Advanced Practice
Nursing Education, Practice, and Regulation, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 42:1, 31–39.

This article has been selected as it is related to the nursing practices. This article is based on the
international survey. This international survey was made on advanced practice nursing
regulation, education and practice. Thus, the basic purpose of this article is to portray
international trends which are being used by nursing practitioners in the field of advanced
practice nurse including levels, nomenclature and kinds of NP-APN practice settings, education,
regulatory policies, political environment and scope of practice. This article has been helpful as it
helped in presenting a snapshot of regulations, education and practice for NP-APNs because they
have a unique role in the provision of health care services in several different countries. The
information within this study is reliable and trustworthy as it has used appropriate research
method for creating entire research. The basic strength of this study is that it has used pilot
survey. Pilot survey appears to be appropriate for conducting this study. In addition to this, the
article used convenience sampling method for sampling the data.

5. Lubbe, C. J. &Roets, L. (2014) Nurses’ Scope of Practice and the Implication for Quality
Nursing Care, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2014, 46:1, 58–64

This research has been helpful for gathering more efficient knowledge related to the topic of
nursing practices as it has discussed scope of nursing practices as well as in describing the
implications for high-quality nursing care. In doing so, the research paper has provided an
overview related to the implications for the health status and care needs of patients. This source
has helped in providing authentic and reliable information related to the topic as it has used the
scenario of The Waterlow TM scale as a practice example. In addition to this, the use of
retrospective quantitative study presents the basic strength of the study. This study helped in
optimizing and ensuring high quality and safe patient care. Thus, this source has been helpful for
gathering and collecting required information related to the topic.
6. Benedict, B. M. & Bradley, D. (2010) A Peek at the Revised Nursing Professional Development:
Scope and Standards of Practice, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, Vol. 41, No.
5, 195-197

This article has been helpful in collecting and gathering useful information related to the topic of
nursing practices as the main focus of this article is to describe the standards and scope of
nursing practices. The basic audience of this article is the professional nurse. This article
provides useful information by illustrating that nurses who have responsibilities and roles in
CNE programs usually give inter-professional learning for non-health related as well as health
related disciplines. This article has made use of several headings in order to provide more
detailed information related to the standards and scope of practices. There are certain weaknesses
of this article as it has not incorporated any type of examples and statistics for supporting the
topic.