Reducing Cognitive Test Anxiety in Nursing Students with Mindfulness Meditation
Author : Vicki Teribury
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Nursing
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Using mindfulness meditation intermixed with humor to reduce anxiety among nursing students during clinical practice
Author : Denise A. O'Brien
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2013
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Implementation of a Mindfulness Activity for Nursing Students with Test Anxiety
Author : Allison Lee Collins
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic dissertations
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Undergraduate nursing students are voicing a high level of test anxiety related to the high stakes testing within their learning environment. Test anxiety has been well documented in nursing education (Bartlett, Taylor, & Nelson, 2016; Duty, Christian, Loftus, & Zappi, 2016; Gibson, 2014). Quinn and Peters (2016) noted that the "presence of high-stakes comprehensive examinations and the consequences of poor performance complicates test anxiety for nursing students" (p. 146). High stakes testing is not a new educational concept, yet test anxiety continues to escalate each year, especially in nursing (Quinn & Peters, 2016). Text anxiety interventions within the curriculum may prove helpful in nursing students' success. Within studies pertaining to test anxiety, mindfulness has helped decrease test anxiety (Bamber & Schneider, 2016; Ratanasiripong et al., 2015; Spadaro & Hunker, 2016). Mindfulness is considered a strategy used in the third wave of behavioral change approaches; therefore, systematic desensitization was used in a mindfulness intervention for test anxiety. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine the impact a mindfulness intervention, using systematic desensitization, had on community college nursing students' test anxiety levels and test scores. Data were collected and analyzed using a sample of 107 associate degree nursing students from a community college in Texas. The intervention group listened to a multimedia Confidence Training for Tests between nursing exams. Post-intervention test anxiety scores were significantly lower (p
Cognitive Interference
Author : Irwin G. Sarason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317843894
Book Description
In this volume, the first synthesis of work on cognitive interference, leading researchers, theorists, and clinicians from around the world confront a number of important questions about intrusive thoughts and suggest a challenging agenda for the future.
Mindfulness Meditation as a Stress Reduction Technique in Undergraduate Nursing Students
Author : J. Blake Smith
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 2021
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"Background: Strengthening attention-regulation efficiency of nurse graduates is important to the quality and safety of nursing practice in increasingly complex and cognitively distracting workplace environments (Burger & Lockhart, 2017). Academic and clinical stressors are experienced by most nursing students enrolled in a nursing program (Yuksel & Yilmaz, 2020). Local problem: Heavy academic workloads, stressors from clinical placements such as complex patient care and lack of effective coping strategies for undergraduate nursing students. Methods: The participant population for this project included 8 undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a traditional baccalaureate program at a Southern Louisiana University. (n=8). Participation in the project was voluntary. Intervention: The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to evaluate the stress perception of undergraduate nursing students utilizing mindfulness meditation. This would be done through an app from the participants' smartphone device 5 days per week for 8 weeks. Results: The evaluation of the project's outcomes after completion of the mindfulness meditation program revealed that there was a 43% decrease in mean scores from pre- to post-intervention. Evaluation of this EBP project was determined by setting a benchmark to see a 25% decrease in mean scores of participants' perceived stress. Conclusions: Given the connection between nurses' attention regulation capacity and safe patient care, the effectiveness of mindfulness techniques has proven to be a reliable tool when it comes to managing the stress perception of nursing students. Utilization of stress management techniques in nursing education could increase student performance and decrease attrition rates. Keywords: Mindfulness, Meditation, Stress, Nursing, Nursing Student, Burnout " -- Abstract
Contemplative Practices and Post-secondary Well-being
Author : Shannon Symmonds Hayden
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Page : 96 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Affect (Psychology)
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Students encounter numerous sources of stress in college from school work to examinations. A proposed method for reducing test related anxiety is contemplative practice (namely, mindfulness meditation and expressive writing). These interventions were used immediately prior to an exam to determine effectiveness on students’ mood and test grade. Although the study produced few statistically significant results, a promising trend in utilizing these interventions for increasing exam grades, increasing positive mood, and decreasing negative mood was uncovered. Each intervention appears to have dissimilar effects on different types of students (i.e., varying degrees of dispositional mindfulness and cognitive test anxiety; for example, students high in trait mindfulness had beneficial changes after practicing the meditation, but students low in trait mindfulness responded more to the exam expressive writing intervention). However, limitations of the study (such as a small sample size) require future investigations before determining the exact effects of these practices.
Good Thinking: Test Taking and Study Skills for Nursing Students
Author : Susan G. Poorman
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Page : 441 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780964055643
Book Description
This exciting textbook can be used by nursing students at all levels of their educational program. Each author has over 20 years of experience working with nursing students preparing for exams. They have published extensively in this area. This book includes information on: * Study Skills * Test-taking skills specific for nursing exams and NCLEXr. * Specific cognitive and behavioral methods for decreasing test anxiety. * Nurse's cognitive assessment model to understand the effects of negative thinking on test performance. * Metacognitive techniques to enhance preparation for the NCLEXr and other nursing exams. * Reasoning exercises to enhance problem solving skills. * Sample questions to prepare for the alternative item format questions on the NCLEXr. * Over 1,000 sample practice test questions with extensive rationales for both correct and incorrect answers.
The Effect of Meditation on Mindfulness, Depression, Stress, and Anxiety in Nursing Students
Author : Shohini Holden
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2022
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Simple main effects analyses showed a reduction in symptoms of depression, stress, and anxiety, as well as a significant increase in reported feelings of mindfulness in the experimental group. Findings of the study support the need to better recognize mental health challenges in nursing students and to consider the use of meditation practice in nursing programs to improve psychological outcomes.
Emotions in Late Modernity
Author : Roger Patulny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351133292
Book Description
This international collection discusses how the individualised, reflexive, late modern era has changed the way we experience and act on our emotions. Divided into four sections that include studies ranging across multiple continents and centuries, Emotions in Late Modernity does the following: Demonstrates an increased awareness and experience of emotional complexity in late modernity by challenging the legal emotional/rational divide; positive/negative concepts of emotional valence; sociological/ philosophical/psychological divisions around emotion, morality and gender; and traditional understandings of love and loneliness. Reveals tension between collectivised and individualised-privatised emotions in investigating ‘emotional sharing’ and individualised responsibility for anger crimes in courtrooms; and the generation of emotional energy and achievement emotions in classrooms. Debates the increasing mediation of emotions by contrasting their historical mediation (through texts and bodies) with contemporary digital mediation of emotions in classroom teaching, collective mobilisations (e.g. riots) and film and documentary representations. Demonstrates reflexive micro and macro management of emotions, with examinations of the ‘politics of fear’ around asylum seeking and religious subjects, and collective commitment to climate change mitigation. The first collection to investigate the changing nature of emotional experience in contemporary times, Emotions in Late Modernity will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as sociology of emotions, cultural studies, political science and psychology. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on the Stress, Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Self-Compassion Levels of Nursing Students
Author : Debra S. Heinrich
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2022
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Further research, using rigorous scientific methods, will be needed to study the most effective methods to evaluate and manage stress and anxiety. This could ultimately decrease the stress and anxiety levels and improve well-being for student nurses and nurses, which could in turn positively impact patient care and outcomes.
