scholarly journals Clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students: are the nurses in practice in Uganda ready?

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Drasiku ◽  
Janet L. Gross ◽  
Casey Jones ◽  
Champion N. Nyoni
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
University Degree

Abstract Background Nurses with degree qualifications offer better nursing care compared to nurses prepared at lower levels. University based nursing degrees have been sanctioned as entry into professional nursing and several low-resource states have introduced university based nursing degrees. The clinical teaching of students enrolled in such degrees is challenged, as most nurses in practice do not have university degrees and may not have the necessary skills to facilitate clinical learning as expected at degree level. A university in Uganda established a bachelor’s degree in Nursing program and was expecting to use nurses in practice at a teaching hospital for the clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students. This study reports on the perceptions of the nurses in practice regarding their readiness for the clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. Methods A qualitative descriptive research study was conducted among 33 conveniently sampled nurses from Arua Regional Referral Hospital (ARRH) who had been supervising Diploma and/or Certificate in Nursing students. Five focus group discussions and three informant interviews were used to generate the data. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive approach through thematic analysis. Results The nurses in practice perceived themselves as ready for clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. Three themes emerged namely; “Willingness to teach undergraduate students” “Perceived attributes of undergraduate students”, and “The clinical practice environment”. Conclusion The nurses in practice need support in the execution of the clinical teaching role of university-degree nursing students. The nature of supports would include, continuing professional development specific to clinical teaching, engaging the educators in the clinical environment, positively engaging power gradients and address insecurities among the nurses and the students. Students in these programmes should be exposed to the clinical environment earlier within the programme, and be exposed to interprofessional and trans-professional education.

scholarly journals Clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students: Are the nurses in practice in Uganda ready?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Drasiku ◽  
Janet L. Gross ◽  
Casey Jones ◽  
Champion N. Nyoni
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
University Degree

Abstract Background: Nurses with degree qualifications offer better nursing care compared to nurses prepared at lower levels. University based nursing degrees have been sanctioned as entry into professional nursing and several low-resource states have introduced university based nursing degrees. The clinical teaching of students enrolled in such degrees is challenged, as most nurses in practice do not have university degrees and are incompetent in moulding the clinical reasoning processes which is inherent within degree education. A university in Uganda established a bachelor’s degree in Nursing program and was expecting to use nurses in practice at a teaching hospital for the clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students. This study reports on the perceptions of the nurses in practice regarding their readiness for the clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A qualitative descriptive research study was conducted among 33 conveniently sampled nurses from ARRH who had been supervising Diploma and/or Certificate in Nursing students. Five focus group discussions and three informant interviews were used to generate the data. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive approach through thematic analysis.Results: The nurses in practice perceived themselves as ready for clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. Three themes emerged namely; “Willingness to teach undergraduate students” “Perceived attributes of undergraduate students”, and “The clinical practice environment”.Conclusion: The nurses in practice need support in the execution of the clinical teaching role of undergraduate nursing students. The nature of supports would include, continuing professional development specific to clinical teaching, engaging the educators in the clinical environment, positively engaging power gradients and address insecurities among the nurses and the students. Students in these programmes should be exposed to the clinical environment earlier within the programme, and be exposed to interprofessional and trans-professional education.

scholarly journals Clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students: Are the nurses in practice in Uganda ready?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Drasiku ◽  
Janet L. Gross ◽  
Casey Jones ◽  
Champion N. Nyoni
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
University Degree

Abstract Background: Nurses with degree qualifications offer better nursing care compared to nurses prepared at lower levels. University based nursing degrees have been sanctioned as entry into professional nursing and several low-resource states have introduced university based nursing degrees. The clinical teaching of students enrolled in such degrees is challenged, as most nurses in practice do not have university degrees and are incompetent in moulding the clinical reasoning processes which is inherent within degree education. A university in Uganda established a bachelor’s degree in Nursing program and was expecting to use nurses in practice at a teaching hospital for the clinical teaching of university-degree nursing students. This study reports on the perceptions of the nurses in practice regarding their readiness for the clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A qualitative descriptive research study was conducted among 33 conveniently sampled nurses from ARRH who had been supervising Diploma and/or Certificate in Nursing students. Five focus group discussions and three informant interviews were used to generate the data. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive approach through thematic analysis.Results: The nurses in practice perceived themselves as ready for clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. Three themes emerged namely; “Willingness to teach undergraduate students” “Perceived attributes of undergraduate students”, and “The clinical practice environment”.Conclusion: The nurses in practice need support in the execution of the clinical teaching role of undergraduate nursing students. The nature of supports would include, continuing professional development specific to clinical teaching, engaging the educators in the clinical environment, positively engaging power gradients and address insecurities among the nurses and the students. Students in these programmes should be exposed to the clinical environment earlier within the programme, and be exposed to interprofessional and trans-professional education.

scholarly journals Clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students: Are the nurses in practice in Uganda ready?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Drasiku ◽  
Janet L. Gross ◽  
Casey Jones ◽  
Champion N. Nyoni
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Nursing Program ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Teaching Role

Abstract Background: Nurses with degree qualifications offer better nursing care compared to nurses prepared at lower levels. University based nursing degrees have been sanctioned as entry into professional nursing and several low-resource states have introduced university based nursing degrees. The clinical teaching of students enrolled in such degrees is challenged, as most nurses in practice do not have university degrees and are incompetent in moulding the clinical reasoning processes which is inherent within degree education. A university in Uganda established a bachelor’s degree in Nursing program and was expecting to use nurses in practice at a teaching hospital for the clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. This study reports on the perceptions of the nurses in practice regarding their readiness for the clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students.Methods: A qualitative descriptive research study was conducted among 33 conveniently sampled nurses from ARRH who had been supervising Diploma and/or Certificate in Nursing students. Five focus group discussions and three informant interviews were used to generate the data. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an inductive approach through thematic analysis.Results: The nurses in practice perceived themselves as ready for clinical teaching of undergraduate nursing students. Three themes emerged namely; “ Willingness to teach undergraduate students ” “ Perceived attributes of undergraduate students ”, and “ The clinical practice environment ”.Conclusion: The nurses in practice need support in the execution of the clinical teaching role of undergraduate nursing students. The nature of supports would include, continuing professional development specific to clinical teaching, engaging the educators in the clinical environment, positively engaging power gradients and address insecurities among the nurses and the students. Students in these programmes should be exposed to the clinical environment earlier within the programme, and be exposed to interprofessional and trans-professional education.

Moral distress in undergraduate nursing students

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 2325-2339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simoní Saraiva Bordignon ◽  
Valéria Lerch Lunardi ◽  
Edison Luiz Devos Barlem ◽  
Graziele de Lima Dalmolin ◽  
Rosemary Silva da Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Intensity Level ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Distress Scale

Background: Moral distress is considered to be the negative feelings that arise when one knows the morally correct response to a situation but cannot act because of institutional or hierarchal constraints. Objectives: To analyze moral distress and its relation with sociodemographic and academic variables in undergraduate students from different universities in Brazil. Method: Quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. Data were collected through the Moral Distress Scale for Nursing Students, with 499 nursing students from three universities in the extreme south of Brazil answering the scale. The data were analyzed in the statistical software SPSS version 22.0, through descriptive statistical analysis, association tests (t-test and analysis of variance), and linear regression models. Ethical considerations: Approval for the study was obtained from the Research Ethics Committee at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. Findings: The mean intensity of moral distress in the constructs ranged from 1.60 to 2.55. As to the occurrence of situations leading to moral distress in the constructs, the frequencies ranged from 1.21 to 2.43. The intensity level of moral distress showed higher averages in the more advanced grades of the undergraduate nursing course, when compared to the early grades of this course (between 5 and 10 grade, average = 2.60–3.14, p = 0.000). Conclusion: The demographic and academic characteristics of the undergraduate nursing students who referred higher levels of moral distress were being enrolled in the final course semesters, were at a federal university, and had no prior degree as an auxiliary nurse/nursing technician.

scholarly journals Learning in the informal spaces and re-signification of the existence of undergraduate students of nursing

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 731-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Silva de Jesus ◽  
Edite Lago da Silva Sena ◽  
Luana Machado Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Public University ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Construction Of Knowledge ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

OBJECTIVE: to describe the perception of lecturers and undergraduate nursing students regarding the dialogic experience in the informal spaces and its relationship with training in health.METHOD: experiential descriptions were collected in the context of a public university in the non-metropolitan region of the state of Bahia, Brazil, using open interviews. These descriptions were analyzed according to the principles of the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.RESULTS: it was revealed that the informal spaces contribute significantly to the construction of knowledge and professional training strengthening teaching and promoting the re-signification of the subjects' experience.CONCLUSION: it is evidenced that the dialogic experience has relevancy for rethinking the teaching-learning process in the university, such that the informal spaces should be included and valued as producers of meanings for the personal and academic life of lecturers and students, with the ability to re-signify existence.

scholarly journals An undergraduate student-faculty collaborative EBP project supporting a campus-wide tobacco free campus

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Theresa A. Kesseler ◽  
Elise M. Alverson
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Orientation Session ◽  
Collaborative Team ◽  
Free Environment

The purposes of this paper are to describe a student-faculty, collaborative team and the evidence-based practice (EBP) project that supported a campus-wide, tobacco-free environment. Two faculty members served as mentors and undergraduate nursing students were selected to participate in a one credit independent study course outside the threaded curricular experiences. Weekly course meetings were used to assess course goals and EBP project progress. After reviewing literature evidence, a baseline campus survey, and focus group data, the best practice strategies were selected by the student-faculty collaborative team for a 3-year plan. The strategies included an orientation session to the tobacco-free campus during student fall orientations and a marketing campaign with social norm messaging. Pre and post-EBP project surveys to determine the effectiveness of the campaign were used to evaluate the outcomes of the team’s efforts. The undergraduate nursing students were effective in planning and implementing the project, and the students reported benefits and challenges to their involvement. The collaborative team was seen as an immensely positive experience despite the increased demands on time. Findings from this EBP project were similar to other literature on smoking abstinence on a college campus. One way to help undergraduate students better appreciate and gain expertise in the EBP process is to engage them in student-faculty collaborative EBP projects within the curriculum. In addition, an emersion experience offers expanded opportunities and greater expertise in EBP to students who can meet the challenge.

scholarly journals Human anatomy and clinical nursing practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Lilian Rubinho Ratero ◽  
Júlio César André ◽  
Emerson Roberto dos Santos ◽  
Lilian Castiglioni ◽  
Nádia Antônia Aparecida Poletti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Clinical Nursing

Introduction and Objective: Human anatomy is an essential component of the undergraduate nursing curriculum for learning the specific disciplines which deal with clinical practice. Anatomical knowledge provides assurance for the practice of clinical assessment and invasive procedures of legal competence of nurses.  The aim of the study was to analyze the correlation of the content taught in the discipline Human Anatomy with the clinical practice of undergraduate nursing students in the discipline Semiology and Semiotics in Nursing and The Care Process, as well as their assurance to start it.Methods: Quantitative descriptive study with the application of an online questionnaire to 66 undergraduate nursing students at a public education institution in the interior of São Paulo. Data analysis by number of occurrences and Chi-square test.Results: There was partial agreement about the interdisciplinarity between human anatomy and disciplines of clinical nursing practice. The students agreed to be partially assured about the procedures to start the semiological practice of different devices and to perform nursing procedures. The predominance of the superficial approach to content related to the clinical practice of the disciplines Semiology and Semiotics in Nursing and The Care Process was predominant.Conclusions: The teaching of human anatomy, along the lines offered, maintains an unsatisfactory correlation with clinical practice due to the students’ experience, interfering with learning, acting in clinical teaching and professional training.

scholarly journals Clinical teaching of nursing fundamentals in the community

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1513
Author(s):  
Gylce Eloisa Cabreira Panitz CRUZ ◽  
Manuel Carlos Rodrigues Fernandes Chaves ◽  
João Luís Alves Apostolo
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Health Determinants ◽  
Scientific Quality ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Community Skills ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the methodology and strategies of the educational plan of the clinical teaching of Nursing Fundamentals in the community that, through the study of health determinants with elderly people, has the goal of training the skills and abilities of undergraduate students in Nursing. Method: this is a qualitative, descriptive, experience-type study developed with Nursing students. The results are presented in figures. Results: the students were led to develop the competencies defined by the different capacities and criteria experienced by the students, in this clinical teaching, during the suggested learning experiences, as well as others that were implemented. Conclusion: the Nursing student was allowed to integrate nursing activities shared between teams and subteams, to build their own knowledge and to add technical and scientific quality to their training. It has become the study of health determinants with older people key to the training of students' undergraduate nursing course. Through this experience, it is possible to offer, based on the perspective of the European continent, a new dimension of learning in the clinical teaching of the Nursing Degree to other continents. Descriptors: Clinical Teaching; Fundamentals of Nursing; Community; Skills; Student; Elderly. RESUMOObjetivo: descrever a metodologia e as estratégias do plano educacional do ensino clínico de Fundamentos de Enfermagem na comunidade que, por meio do estudo de determinantes de saúde com pessoas idosas, tem como meta a formação de competências e capacidades dos estudantes do curso de Licenciatura em Enfermagem. Método: trata-se de um estudo qualitativo, descritivo, do tipo relato de experiência, desenvolvido com estudantes de Enfermagem. Apresentam-se os resultados em forma de figuras. Resultados: conduziu-se os estudantes a desenvolver as competências definidas pelas diferentes capacidades e critérios vivenciados pelos estudantes, neste ensino clínico, durante as experiências de aprendizagem sugeridas, assim como outras que foram implementadas. Conclusão: permitiu-se, ao estudante de Enfermagem, pela integração de atividades de Enfermagem compartilhadas entre equipes e subequipes, construir seu próprio conhecimento e acrescentar qualidade técnica e científica à sua formação. Tornou-se o estudo de determinantes de saúde com pessoas idosas fundamental para a formação de competências dos estudantes do curso de Licenciatura em Enfermagem. Pode-se disponibilizar, por esta experiência, com propostas baseadas no olhar do continente europeu, uma nova dimensão de aprendizagem no ensino clínico da Licenciatura de Enfermagem para outros continentes. Descritores: Ensino Clínico; Fundamentos de Enfermagem; Comunidade; Competências; Estudante; Idoso. RESUMEN Objetivo: describir la metodología y las estrategias del plan educativo de la enseñanza clínica de Fundamentos de Enfermería en la comunidad que, a través del estudio de determinantes de salud con personas mayores, tiene como meta la formación de competencias y capacidades de los estudiantes del curso de Licenciatura en Enfermería. Método: se trata de un estudio cualitativo, descriptivo, del tipo relato de experiencia, desarrollado con estudiantes de Enfermería. Se presentan los resultados en forma de figuras. Resultados: se llevó a los estudiantes a desarrollar las competencias definidas por las diferentes capacidades y criterios vivenciados por los estudiantes, en esta enseñanza clínica, durante las experiencias de aprendizaje sugeridas, así como otras que se implementaron. Conclusión: se permitió al estudiante de Enfermería, por la integración de actividades de Enfermería compartidas entre equipos y subequipos, construir su propio conocimiento y añadir calidad técnica y científica a su formación. Se ha convertido el estudio de determinantes de salud con personas de edad avanzada para la formación de competencias de los estudiantes del curso de Licenciatura en Enfermería. Se puede disponer, por esta experiencia, con propuestas basadas en la mirada del continente europeo, una nueva dimensión de aprendizaje en la enseñanza clínica de la Licenciatura de Enfermería para otros continentes. Descritores: Enseñanza Primaria; Fundamentos de Enfermeíra; Comunidad; Habilidades: Estudiante; Ancianos.

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