Nursing Education Research Unit
Monthly Meeting: Monday May 10, 2010
Time: 1-2pm
Chair: Charlotte Noesgaard
In attendance:
 Eileen Hanna
 Linda O’Mara
 Catherine Tompkins
 M.J. McGraw
 Michael Ladouceur
 Rebecca Gannon
 Lynn Martin
 Colleen McKey
Meeting Agenda
Location: HSC 1J10
Minutes: Betty McCarthy
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Sheryl Boblin
Gladys Peachey
Gerry Benson
Ola Lunyk-Child
Charlotte Noesgaard
Courtney Evers
Verla Fortier
Lee Ann Siracusa
Charlotte Noesgaard
NERU PILOT GRANTS 4 successful grants of $ 2,000.00 each – see below
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Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the BScN Curriculum: Are we preparing our
students for collaborative practice?
J.Salfi, P. Solomon (Mentor), D.Allen, D. Rawlin
Expanding Undergraduate Nursing Students Knowledge of their Self-Care
Lovegrove, J, Tyrell L., Burns, R & Martin L
Nurses experiences of preceptoring International Nursing students
Majumdar,B, Boblin,S., Mahabeer,S., and Hoxby H
Information Literacy in the clinical learning environment of new graduate nurses
O.Wahoush and Librarian
Eileen Hanna &
Michael Ladouceur
In this NERU presentation, discussion about the changes that occurred in the Health, Science
and Society course in the fall of 2009. The following aspects were discussed:
New Math in the SON: Sample, 40 X 10 = 931
The Process: dissolving 40 faculty-facilitated small groups of Level 3 students, approximately
10 students per group, into 4 large classes, 4 streams, 3 sites and 2 levels with 931students in
total.
Objective:
 Upstream social determinants of health – not downstream
 Process entailed seminar performance, short paper and a final paper
The Challenges:
 integrating the pbl small group process into the large classes,
 new texts,
 noise levels,
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ELM – student could not find information
not knowing the students,
new units each week,
volume of emails.
Administrating quizzes
The Rewards:
 excellent student presentations,
 superb student Reflections,
 students helped themselves and were more mature and respectful at end of the course
 exceptional scores on the registrar administered exam, and no appeals!
 (931) peer evaluations very valuable – good feedback – summarized by Lee Anne
Siracusa
 Students to take responsibility for own learning
 Come on time and respect your peers
 Students passionate about writing every quiz
Next Meeting June 10, 2010
HSC 1J10 1:00 – 2:00
Kevin Eva, PhD, Associate Professor
Self and Peer Evaluation
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