**Meet the editors**

Majda Pajnkihar is a Dean, Associate Professor and Head of the Institute of Nursing Care at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences (UM FHS). She obtained her PhD from University of Manchester in 2003 and became the first nurse with a PhD in Slovenia. She worked on numerous national and international projects in nursing and health care. She is a visiting pro-

fessor at University of Osijek, Josipa Jurja Strossmayera, Medical Faculty, Department of Nursing, Osijek and was a visiting professor at University of Ulster, Belfast. Professor Pajnkihar is currently a Chair and was one of the founding members of the international UDINE-C group, connecting different nursing schools across Europe, USA and Russia. She is also an Honorary Professor at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing. She received several prestigious awards for her work at the UM and a Golden badge of Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia.

Dominika Vrbnjak is a teaching assistant at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences. She obtained a Master degree in Nursing from University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences. Currently, she is a doctoral student of Biomedical Technology at Faculty of Medicine in Maribor. During her postgraduate study, she was also a visiting PhD student of Waterford Insti-

tute of Technology in Ireland. She participates in scientific and research projects and disseminates her work in scientific papers and professional peer reviewed journals. Her research work was published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, Journal of Nursing Management and Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences among others. During her undergraduate study, she received a Rector's award at the University of Maribor for the best undergraduate student in a generation. She previously worked for four years as a registered nurse at General Hospital Ptuj, where she developed communication and organizational skills while leading and coordinating the nursing care.

Gregor Stiglic is a Vice Dean for Research, Associate Professor and Head of Research Institute at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences (UM FHS). He worked as a Visiting Researcher at Data Analysis and Biomedical Analytics (DABI) Center at Temple University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Shah Lab, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Universi-

ty. His research interests encompass application of data analytics and knowledge discovery techniques in healthcare. His work was published in multiple conference publications, peer reviewed journals and books. Dr Stiglic gave talks on his research work at renowned research institutions such as IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Stanford University, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh and University of Tokyo. He served as an organizer at many workshops and conferences in the field of health data science.

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## **Preface XI**


Chapter 6 **Impact of Education, Working Conditions, and Interpersonal Relationships on Caregivers' Job Satisfaction 69** Majda Pajnkihar, Klavdija Čuček Trifkovič, Barbara Donik, Sabina Fijan, Vida Gönc, Barbara Kegl, Mateja Lorber, Maja Strauss, Jadranka Stričević, Sonja Šostar Turk, Gregor Štiglic, Natalya Nikolaevna Kamynina, Irina V. Ostrovskaya and Dominika Vrbnjak Chapter 7 **Transferring Psychological Therapy Education into Practice in the United Kingdom: A Complex Systems Analysis 87** Ian McGonagle and Christine Jackson

## Chapter 8 **Current Characteristics of the Hungarian Nurses' Workforce 99**

Jozsef Betlehem, Emese Pek, Balint Banfai and Andras Olah

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Chapter 7 **Transferring Psychological Therapy Education into Practice in the United Kingdom: A Complex Systems Analysis 87**

Jozsef Betlehem, Emese Pek, Balint Banfai and Andras Olah

Ian McGonagle and Christine Jackson

Chapter 8 **Current Characteristics of the Hungarian Nurses'**

**Workforce 99**

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This book is based on the premise that there is a requirement to continually bridge the gap between nursing education and the practice of nursing. It is written by experts in the field of nursing education, practice and research. It provides unified and detailed material on teach‐ ing and learning in the field of nursing education, which is supported by evidence based practice. The material in this book is of prime interest to both nurse-educators and health care professionals who have responsibility for student/patient teaching and who wish to meet the challenges of evidence based teaching and learning in nursing, education, research and practice. We are now living in an era of change in relation to the educational process and there is a growing interest in different teaching, learning and information technology approaches that serve to motivate students to be receptive to learning. This book offers top‐ ics that are insightful, informative and practical where teaching and learning are viewed as an integrated process. It affords an opportunity for the reader to actively engage in a peda‐ gogical process that is fundamental to integrated learning for the nursing profession and patient care.

In contemporary nursing, there is a need for an ever-growing knowledge base that should serve as a stimulus to develop innovative research and teaching in nursing education and practice. The first chapter focuses on the attitudes of nursing students to learning nurse-pa‐ tient communication skills, which are often not emphasized enough in nursing education programmes and curricula. Chapter 2 provides an overview of problem based learning as an educational approach that enables students to develop essential critical thinking skills neces‐ sary for safe and effective nursing care. In Chapter 3, the authors present an approach to the development of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), which have already been adapted by many international universities for assessment of healthcare competencies and as a formative teaching tool. The chapter discusses the measurement of the content validity of the OSCE and the process of adaptation of the checklists to the local environment. In tan‐ dem with the last chapter, Chapter 4, considers the objectivity and comprehensiveness of OSCE in comparing students' self-assessment with teacher assessment of clinical skills. Chapter 5 deals with the assessment of clinical nursing competencies by providing a critical review of the literature and describes a requirement to develop a holistic approach to clini‐ cal skills competency assessment.

The last three chapters report on developments in the clinical environment starting with Chapter 6 where the authors describe the impact of education, working conditions as well as interpersonal relationships on nurses' general job satisfaction. Chapter 7 presents an over‐ view of the impact of psychological therapy education on practice. In the final chapter, the authors provide an overview of the characteristics of the nursing workforce in Hungary with recommendations as to how new roles can provide solutions for the current nursing shortages.

We hope that this book will serve as a resource and guide to health care professionals in fulfilling the broader role of health care education. We are thankful to several people who helped in the process of writing and editing this book. Therefore, we would like to thank all authors and reviewers, Margaret Denny, Christine Jackson, Ian McGonagle and Brian Shar‐ vin for their hard work and especially to Margaret Denny who was always ready to help with advice and tireless help. The book was inspired by many participants of the interna‐ tional conference "Research and Education in Nursing" that was held in June 2016 in Mari‐ bor, hence, we would also like to thank all the staff of the Faculty of Health Science at the University of Maribor who kindly helped in organization of this successful event.

#### **Associate Professor Majda Pajnkihar,**

University of Maribor, Slovenia

**Dominika Vrbnjak,** University of Maribor, Slovenia

**Associate Professor Gregor Štiglic,** University of Maribor, Slovenia
