Exploring internship nursing students’ perception of gerontological nursing competencies: A descriptive study at Cairo University Hospitals

Objective:This research study explores the perceptions of gerontological nursing competencies,attitudes toward older individuals,and the willingness to provide care for the elderly among internship nursing students.Materials and Methods:A convenience sample of 350 internship nursing students from Cairo University Faculty of Nursing participated in the study.Data were collected using a set of comprehensive tools,including personal data and work experience assessment,the Hartford geriatric nurse competency tool,Kogan’s attitudes toward old people scale,and the modified elderly patient care inventory.Results:Descriptive analysis revealed balanced gender representation,with 60%identifying as female.Seventy percent of participants reported prior experience in gerontological care.Self-assessed competency scores indicated moderate proficiency in communication,physiological changes,and functional status assessment.Areas such as pain management and restraint use demonstrated potential gaps in self-perceived skills.Attitudes toward older individuals were predominantly positive,and the willingness to provide care showed positive tendencies,with a minor degree of hesitation noted.Conclusion:The findings underscore the need for targeted interventions in nursing education to address competency gaps,enhance positive attitudes,and alleviate potential hesitations in caregiving for older individuals.As the elderly population continues to grow,nursing education programs must prepare future practitioners to deliver comprehensive and compassionate care tailored to the unique needs of older adults.

The Impact of Internships on the Skill Acquisition Among Nursing Students in Vocational Colleges of Shandong Province

This research investigates the impact of internships on skill acquisition among nursing students in vocational colleges in Shandong Province.By employing a mixed-methods approach involving surveys and interviews,the study re-veals the positive influence of internships on students’clinical competencies,professional qualities,and readiness for the workforce.Survey findings indicate heightened practical capabilities and increased confidence among students.Interviews emphasize the pivotal role of mentors in guiding skills development and professional growth.However,challenges such as resource constraints and workload imbalances during internships are also highlighted.These insights contribute to the en-hancement of nursing education and the preparation of competent nursing professionals in the region.

Clinical Internship Teaching Management During the COVID-19 Epidemic

Against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic,the teaching and management of clinical medical interns have been facing tremendous challenges.When interns majoring in clinical medicine enter the internship position,they lack self-protection awareness and have limited ability to respond to unexpected public health events.This article explores the cognitive situation,existing problems,and improvement measures of clinical medical interns in the post-epidemic era.Therefore,this article proposes a series of improvement measures,including strengthening epidemic training and education for interns,enhancing personal protective awareness,and lastly achieving the role transition from intern to doctor.

Analysis of Combining OBE and CBL in Pharmacy Internship

Talent training has been emphasized in China’s national development.Training an excellent pharmaceutical professional has far-reaching significance for promoting rational use of drugs,ensuring safe drug use,and improving the quality and safety of medical treatment.The internship program is an important part of a pharmacy major that serves to develop students’practical skills.In this paper,we propose a combination of outcome-based education(OBE)and case-based learning(CBL)in pharmacy internships to promote critical thinking and independent learning among students and ensure the sustainable development of pharmacy education.

Insights from the University of Cincinnati Paid Internship Education Program

The University of Cincinnati is the birthplace of the paid internship program in the world and it has the most number of compulsory paid internship programs in the United States.Their paid internship education program has rich experience and remarkable results in curriculum arrangement,internship management and government support.However,the internship for vocational colleges in China faces problems such as low enthusiasm from industry,difficulty in internship management and insufficient government support.Drawing on the experience of paid internship education in the United States,the school and the industry jointly planned the internship training program,and finally established a collaboration model that benefits the three parties of the academia,the industry and the students.

Analysis of the Role of Chinese and American Supervisors of Internship Placement-Taking the Universityof Cincinnat's School-Enterprise Cooperation Model as an Example

The University of Cincinnati is the birthplace of the global paid internship program and has the most professional paid internship instructors in the United States.The University of Cincinnati has the most professional paid internship instructors in the United States.However,China's higher education institutions started their internship programs late,and instructors lack special training,which prevents them from playing their role fully.By analyzing the type of full-time mentor teachers,job content and legal functions of the University of Cincinnati,we will provide reference for the working model of new internship mentor teachers in China.

Avoiding the Gap of College Students’ Internship Expectations and Perceptions—A Case Study in Taiwan

Internship is believed to be vital in bridging the gap of theory and practice because of its providing students many realities they couldn’t find on campus. In fact, successful internships can play the role of “win-win-win” triangular partnership among schools, students, and industries, especially to benefit students to well equip themselves for good opportunities in the future career development. However, internship experiences that fail to meet students’ expectation may also discourage them or turn them away from entering the industry. Hence, to be aware of and to avoid the potential gap of students’ expectation cannot be underestimated. The study aimed to explore students’ expectation of internships from an aspect of gender and multiple intelligences expecting to avoid the potential gap beforehand. Subjects were eighty college Hospitality students who were ready to conduct their internships out of campus. They helped to fill out the questionnaires dealing with their personal demographic information, multiple intelligences, and expectations of internship. Findings revealed that genders and multiple intelligences did make a difference in students’ expectations of internship which may bring about frustration or disappointment in their real internship world. Suggestions and implications for the triangular partnership of schools, students, and industries were provided with a better understanding of factors relevant to students’ expectations for a more appropriate internship program to avoid the potential gap in advance.

Evaluating of Training and Internship Programs of University Hospitals

Objective: This study aimed to assess training and internship programs (courses) of basic and clinical sciences in hospitals based on surveying the students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Material and Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional one with survey descriptive designs. The data collection tool was a questionnaire with 14 five-point likert style items. The Research and Development Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences surveyed all 185 students of training and internship programs, using a questionnaire with the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 81%, for the purpose of adjusting the education to the society’s needs and improving its quality. Result: The mean scores of the assessment of training and internship programs were 3.32%, 2.98%, 3.38% and 3.29%, respectively for theoretical classroom training related to practical training, mental, communicational and practical skills courses. The students’ satisfaction rate regarding the quality of educational courses of training and internship programs was 50.2%. Conclusion: Educational authorities have made necessary attempts to implement these programs and use potential resources for realizing the objectives and achieving the educational quality;however, they should make further attempts in this regard.

Hospitality and Tourism International Internships and Perceived Employability

This paper investigates the experiences of UK undergraduate students who have undertaken a one year paid internship abroad within the hotel sector by using a phenomenological approach.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 25 final year undergraduate students.The findings shed light on the alignment of key elements of the constructs of positive psychological capital and cosmopolitan human capital,along with strong self-belief in employability as a consequence of the experience.A theoretical model of international experience and positive psych-social development is postulated and contributes to improved practice in internship and employability mentoring and policy decision-making with respect to current internationalisation and employability agendas in the UK’s higher education system.

Difficulties and Countermeasures of Enterprise＇s Post Internship Management

Relative policies, enterprise＇ s human resources management theories and colleges＇ internship management systems were reviewed, the difficulties of enterprise＇ s post internship management were analyzed and countermeasures were put forward from the perspective of colleges in order to lower enterprise＇ s risk, foster internship work to carry out smoothly and realize the benefits of college, enterprise and students.

Application of Electronic Portfolio in Internship Course of University Art Education Major

Electronic portfolio is a method of teaching evaluation applied in teaching under the modern educational concept in recent years, normally used in primary and secondary schools. In recent years, some teachers have introdnced it into university teaching. Characteristics and demands of fine arts education internship ask for application of the form of electronic portfolio internship for teaching evaluation, enabling instructors to make internship preparation for students＇ internship period. Teaching experience accumulation and reflection could bring a more systematic and comprehensive evaluation of teaching and internship can enhance internship students＇ awareness of the importance of internship, and make good sorting in internship effectively. Self-reflection and conclusion are conducive to exchange of internship experience, promotion of learning ability and cultivation of a good learning attitude of life-long learning. In internship evaluation, teachers can determine evaluation objectives by applying the electronic portfolio to help students select portfolio of internship, gather the information needed in teaching, make teaching recommendations, solve practical teaching problems, and finally make a multivariate evaluation of internship students, to really make art education internship contribute to students.

Research and Practice of Long- term Mechanism of Highlighting the Local Industry Characteristics of the Garden Engineering and Technical Expertise Internship

The higher vocational education has the dual attributes of higher education and vocational education, with vocational education development pace continues to accelerate, the establishment of vocational schools and school-enterprise cooperation corporate long-term mechanism must be addressed now become a good core issues as soon as possible, to achieve effective implementation of internships, we must achieve five-win of social, school, business, students and parents, to a certain extent, for the regional industry economic development.

The Discussion About the Practice of University Students＇ Off-campus Internship Organization

The role of practice teaching in the cultivation of college talents is becoming more and more important. Students＇ off-campus internships are an essential part of practice teaching. The organizational implementation of off-campus internship is the foundation of the success of the internship and the realization of the goal of training talents. The university should improve the system construction, ensure the student＇s off-campus program, the organization, the teacher, the financial support and so on. In line with the principle of mutual benefit, the author will strengthen communication and exchanges with enterprises and establish a long-term and stable basis for after-school internship. To guarantee the practice effect and achieve the goals of talents cultivation, stimulating students＇ enthusiasm to participate in the internship is necessary through the establishment of scientific and reasonable practice performance evaluation system.

An Investigation of Taiwan Residents Nursing Students’ English Learning Behaviors and Environmental Factors Related to English Learning before and after Their Internship Experiences—A Case Study

The study aimed to investigate Taiwan Residents nursing students’ English learning behaviors and environmental factors relevant to English learning before and after their internships. More than five hundred nursing students from five junior colleges in southern Taiwan served as subjects of the study. The research instrument included a 134-item questionnaire dealing with students’ personal demographic information and English learning behaviors of motivation, strategy, and anxiety. In addition, environmental factors relevant to English learning of English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) and Internationalization at Home (IaH), as well as nursing English for practicum use were discussed. Findings revealed that some correlations among students’ English learning behaviors, environmental factors, and English levels did exist before and after their internships. Moreover, students’ internship experiences of English use also brought about some changes in their learning behaviors led to English levels. Some implications and suggestions were provided for schools and students hoping to equip students with good English skills before getting into the job market.

Impact of Covid-19 on University Final Year Internship Students

Covid-19 has significantly changed the lives of millions of people worldwide, especially university students. The pandemic has a strong influence on university students, all of whom are concerned about their future. This paper addresses the issue of the impact of the pandemic on final-year internship students. The work’s goal is to illustrate how Covid-19 outbreaks in the last year have influenced final-year internship university students and their internships, internship opportunities, career prospects, psychological well-being, and motivation. The Covid-19 impact is so huge on education. The purpose of this study is to show how it hampers a specific sector, like university final year internship students. In the future, if anybody wants to know the situation of intern students at universities, they will get to know it. The work aims to examine and classify the fundamental problems that final year students have faced in finding an internship during the Covid-19 pandemic period, the obstacles they face in finding an internship, how universities help their students, how students get internships, why internship opportunities are getting limited, and how students overcome obstacles in finding an internship. To complete this research, first, we chose around 25 questions and worked on them to survey different university students in Bangladesh. The research was performed using reviews of different research papers and a survey approach. The survey has been developed using the Google Forms platform. Three hundred students who are currently studying at public and private universities in Bangladesh participated in the study. Students have been asked to answer 25 questions online. The data was evaluated concretely. Most of those students were from the last semester or last year of their university life. And in the end, we finally came to a conclusion about how the research worked. It creates a scenario where over 300 students have shared their thoughts on each aspect of the research questions. Whether they suffer or not, most of them find it pretty difficult to complete their internship because most of the participants were university final year students, and after completing all the research, the results can be written as if there was no situation like this, it would be much easier and more convenient for all the final year university interns.

面向创新创业的智能医学工程实习教学探索

以实践教学体系为基础,依托实践教学基地,采用“两面向三结合”的教学模式,并贯通式地融入课程思政元素。“两面向三结合”是指面向创新创业素质培养,在理论培训中将技术原理与企业运营知识相结合;在实践过程中将车间实习和项目研究相结合;在实习中将理论培训与实践过程相结合。教学实践表明,该实习教学方法有利于增强学生的动手能力,提高学生的创新能力,强化学生的创业意识,培养学生的职业精神,达到了预期效果。

雨课堂联合PDCA在康复治疗学毕业实习生线上教学中的应用

目的探讨雨课堂联合戴明循环[P(plan)、D(do)、C(check)、A(act),PDCA]在康复治疗学专业毕业实习学生线上教学中的应用效果。方法于2022年3—4月选取中国医科大学康复治疗学专业2018级65名实习学生作为研究对象。采用雨课堂联合PDCA完成六周线上实习教学,线上实习过程中每周对全体学生的雨课堂分数进行分析。结果全体学生6周雨课堂答题分数[(79.82±9.18)分,(69.78±13.01)分,(59.66±13.42)分,(67.45±15.04)分,(67.63±14.20)分,(67.78±13.78)分]之间差异有统计学意义(P<0.001),雨课堂答题分数从第2周开始呈现下降趋势,从第4周开始逐渐提升,并趋于平稳水平。女生每周的雨课堂答题成绩均高于男生,且差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论雨课堂联合PDCA构建多维度线上实习管理架构,有助于不断提升学生的临床诊疗思维,同时利于教学管理人员进行质量监控,不断提高教学水平和教学质量。

新工科背景下铁道运输专业方向实习课程教学改革与探索

实习环节是工科专业人才培养的重要环节,为学生提供现场设备设施认知、生产作业组织等接触与体验,为学生继续深造或进入工作岗位提供实践知识储备。该文在新工科建设背景下,基于OBE理念,重新梳理铁道运输专业方向实习课程在培养方案中的地位和作用,明确铁道运输专业方向实习课程体系的内容及培养目标,提出基于ASK的实习效果评价。为保障实习课程的教学质量,从教师队伍、教学策略和手段、实习基地建设及实习教学管理等方面对生产实习提出系列改进措施。论文研究可为工科专业的实习实践课程建设提供参考。

Mini-CEX联合DOPS评价体系在牙体牙髓病学临床教学中的应用研究

目的:研究联合应用迷你临床演练评估(mini-clinical evaluation exercise,Mini-CEX)与诊疗技能直接观察法(direct observation of procedural skills,DOPS)评估量表在口腔医学专业本科生牙体牙髓病学临床实习教学中的应用效果。方法:对60名在牙体牙髓科实习的口腔医学专业本科生分别在实习开始(0个月)、实习中期(1个月)和实习结束(3个月)时采用Mini-CEX评测量表评测综合病例诊治能力,DOPS量表测评窝洞制备、橡皮障隔离、开髓术等基本临床技能操作并行统计学分析。结果:共完成Mini-CEX量表评测180次,DOPS量表评测540次。随着实习阶段的进展,两种量表的得分均逐步提高,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。结论:联合应用Mini-CEX与DOPS评估方法能够有效促进实习医师临床实践能力的培养,值得在牙体牙髓病学的本科临床实习教学中推广。

护理本科生临床实习带教管理与思考——从师生双向调查结果看护理本科生临床实习带教

目的:探讨护理本科生临床实习中的管理问题。方法:以问卷星方式对护理本科生实习目标、师生相互期望和带教中的问题及困难进行双向调查。结果:带教老师最关注的是护生的实习态度和沟通能力;护生对老师的期望是通情理、有耐心、有责任心,其次是较强的专业知识;带教老师面临的最大困难是学生的实习态度问题。结论:(1)院校之间对护理本科生临床实习目标沟通较少,是影响护生实习态度的主要因素。(2)临床带教老师对老师角色认知不足,激励管理欠缺是影响教学态度的主要因素。(3)加强护理本科生临床带教管理,尤其是临床老师角色的强化和带教模式的改变是提高临床护理教学质量的根本途径。