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Pool, Inge A.; Poell, Rob F.; ten Cate, Th. J. – Vocations and Learning, 2013
The need for nurses to participate in continuing professional development (CPD) is growing to keep abreast of rapid changes in nursing care. Concurrently, the nursing workforce is growing older. Ageing leads to changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning. Little is known about the effects of age-related changes on nurses'…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Professional Development, Nursing Education, Aging (Individuals)
Adams, Tracey; Sawchuk, Peter H. – Vocations and Learning, 2021
An extensive body of workplace learning literature documents the changing nature of professional learning, knowledge and work, but the tensions between the distinctive purposes and interests of professions and organizations have not received the same level of attention. The sociology of professions literature in contrast has paid an enormous…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Nurses, Workplace Learning
Zlatanovic, Tatjana; Havnes, Anton; Mausethagen, Sølvi – Vocations and Learning, 2017
The conceptions of what constitutes nursing competence and how such competence is taught and learned are changing, due to rapid changes in in the health sector. Nurse teachers' competencies for providing high-quality, up-to-date nursing education, are developing accordingly. This paper reviews the existing research on nurse teachers' competencies…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, College Faculty, Teacher Competencies
Valleala, Ulla Maija; Herranen, Sanna; Collin, Kaija; Paloniemi, Susanna – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Health care organizations are facing rapid changes, frequently involving modification of existing procedures. The case study reported here examined change processes and learning in a health care organization. The organizational change in question occurred in the emergency clinic of a Finnish central hospital where a new action model for…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Educational Opportunities, Workplace Learning, Case Studies
Øye, Christine; Mekki, Tone Elin; Skaar, Randi; Dahl, Hellen; Forland, Oddvar; Jacobsen, Frode F. – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Knowledge utilization is politically "hot" because it informs decisions on improving the quality of care in nursing homes (NHs). The difficulties encountered in implementing evidence-based knowledge into practice may be explained by contextual factors. Contextual factors are crucial to understanding the process of knowledge utilization;…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Knowledge Level, Evidence Based Practice, Context Effect