Background: Utilizing health literacy is important in establishing knowledgeable health advancements and practices, which can become deterrents to promoting a healthy lifestyle. Technological advancements improve health information availability and accessibility that potentially affect the users’ proficiency and their capability in applying the accessed health information. However, accessing …
Background: Beyond the pandemic, synchronous online learning was found to be a reliable approach in undergraduate nursing education. The students' self-directed learning readiness and online self-efficacy are key to the successful implementation of this approach. Readiness determines the learner’s needs based on contextual education, while efficacy refers to the students' confidence when comp…
Background: Bullying is an issue of serious concern in many school settings. Some forms of bullying are verbal, physical, or relational. Factors such as social pressure, diversity differences, and power inequality play a role in triggering bullying behavior among adolescents. The impact is not only limited to the victim, but also creates adverse interpersonal dynamics and affects the social cli…
Introduction: Many students experience academic stress during their learning process, which can negatively impact their academic performance. One effective way to manage this stress is by improving self-regulated learning (SRL). Students with high levels of SRL are better equipped to manage their learning, leading to improved academic achievement. Objective: This study aims to describe the leve…
Introduction: Self-regulated learning is the ability of individuals to actively regulate thought, feeling, and behavior during the learning process to achieve academic goals. Self-regulated learning is important to support the academic success of nursing students, but there is a lot of literature showing that nursing students are faced with various problems in learning such as tight assignment …
Introduction: First year students are often faced with various challenges that have an impact on their psychological well-being. So far, the psychological well-being of first-year nursing students is not clearly known. Good psychological well-being helps first-year nursing students cope with academic demands. Objective: This study aimed to describe the psychological well-being of first-year stu…
Background: Nursing students, like other healthcare workers, are prone to needlestick injuries. Over the years, studies have been conducted regarding needlestick injuries. However, its prevalence among Filipino nursing students’ is still not known. Also, nursing students’ intention to report needlestick injuries in the Philippines has not been explored. Purpose: The purpose of this researc…
Background: The skills in effective communication and critical thinking are essential for nurses to apply appropriate judgments in the delivery of patient care. Classroom debates are evident to be an effective strategy that can be used to improve such skills. Unfortunately, research focusing on classroom debates to promote critical thinking and oral communication skills among nursing students h…
Background: As nurses play an important role in the implementation of patient safety in hospitals, competencies of patient safety should be developed and enhanced among nursing students. Self-assessment is a method that can be used to assess patient safety and its dimensions to help the students prepare themselves before entering the work life. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate differen…