Heather M. Hurst's research while affiliated with Kingston University London and other places
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Publications (2)
Vocationally based higher education programmes are meant to prepare people for employment in their chosen fields of study. In nursing, historically, employment after qualifying has been almost assured, with sufficient vacancies available for newly qualified nurses. Recently, however, for a number of reasons, primarily related to economic conditions...
The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University/St George's University of London (KU/SGUL) provides a module to train registered nurses to qualify as independent nurse prescribers. During the programme the participants engage in an online learning activity using a virtual patient (VP). The aim of this VP activity is to enable...
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... It is important to support and facilitate graduating students in developing their competences in information, communication and technology (ICT) to cope with complex and challenging situations and to sustain their employability (Craig & Piśkur 2012). This is important as Dray et al. (2011) report that newly qualified nurses encountered difficulties in gaining employment due to poor application and interview techniques. It is imperative that HEIs include interviewing and application writing skills in the curriculum along with helping students to communicate their skills and achievements to others including employers (Open University, 2007). ...
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... 17,21,28,36,40,51,63,66 Of the six articles (9%) describing a digital assessment, only one was not combined with e-learning. 45 Nine articles (14%) described more unique learning interventions: gamified e-learning, 18 a text-based virtual patient, 35,64 an augmented reality virtual patient, 50 e-learning with email case discussions, 75 a wiki-like student drug formulary, 46 a drug-dosage simulator, 39 a digital drug repository, 42 and informative podcasts. 47 Fifty-one percent of interventions were aimed at postgraduate physicians, 12,13,15,[18][19][20]23,24,[27][28][29][30][31]33,34,36,40,42,50,54,55,[58][59][60]62,64,65,67,68,[71][72][73][74][75] 25% were aimed at nonmedical Table S2. ...
