scholarly journals Report on the experiences of fourth year nursing students registered for the degree of bachelor of nursing science at the university of Namibia, regarding rural placement in 2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Joan.M Kloppers ◽  
Lucia.N Nelumbu ◽  
Maria.B Tibinyane
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Staff Shortage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Professional Nurses ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University

The School of Nursing and Public Health sends every year the final year nursing degree students to rural placements. Students are send to the different clinics and hospitals in regions namely; - Khomas, Otjozondjupa, Kharas, Erongo, Omaheke, Kavango East and West, Otjikoto and Zambezi region. The students were placed from the 2nd June to 4th June 2014. Rural placement is organized because of complaints received from the public sector. It was uttered that newly qualified professional nurses after having obtained their degrees, lack the skills to operate independently.Aim: The aim of rural placement for fourth year nursing students is to gain knowledge and to develop the necessary skills to practice independently under the supervision of a qualified and experience registered nurse.Method: No actual research was conducted. The answers were collected from the fourth year nursing students’ reports.Results: The findings from the report of the fourth year nursing students were positive and negative. The findings were divided in themes and sub themes by using Tech’s method. The positive responses were:Management of administrative aspects. Platform to work independently; Students learn to apply their critical thinking.Practice how to manage a health facility: Learn more on integrated management of neonatal and childhood diseasesManagement of hypertension, asthma and other emergency cases.Students Experience the difference between rural and urban. Distances were very far; roads are difficult to travel; There is not always a doctor and you had to make own decisions for the patient.Prepare students to become responsible and accountable professional nurses.Work under supervision of the registered nurse.Negative responses were: Staff shortage; no delegation at some places; poor communication; language barriers; far distances.Conclusion: Although there were some hiccups the students were very grateful for the exposure to the rural placement. Students have learnt a lot of activities they were previously not fully confident of.

Introducing a flipped classroom in a pharmacology course

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 296-300
Author(s):  
Sehrish Sajjad ◽  
Ambreen Gowani
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Retrospective Chart Review ◽  
Continuous Assessment ◽  
Assessment Scores ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Traditional Pedagogy ◽  
Pharmacology Knowledge

Background: Flipped classroom pedagogy has been shown to improve nursing students' academic performance. Aim: The study aimed to determine the effect of a flipped classroom approach on students' pharmacology assessment scores in a school of nursing in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed. The pharmacology test scores of the BSc nursing cohort of 2020, when flipped classroom pedagogy was used, was compared with those of the BSc nursing cohort of 2019, where traditional pedagogy was employed. Students' summative evaluation for the course and their verbal feedback were analysed. Results: The median continuous assessment test score of the 2019 cohort was 35 (interquartile range (IQR) 32–38), while that of the 2020 cohort was 38 (IQR 35–41). The difference in the score was statistically significant (P<0.001). Conclusion: The study gives an insight into a relatively novel pedagogy that was found to improve pharmacology knowledge test scores among nursing students.

scholarly journals The Community Champions Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Sophie R. Mintz ◽  
Chantal A. Low ◽  
Ian J. McCurry ◽  
Terri H. Lipman
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Community Members ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
The University

The Community Champions program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing provides motivated nursing students with opportunities to partner with the greater Philadelphia community and engage in hands-on learning. With several thriving initiatives, students participate in service learning outside of the classroom, which ultimately strengthens their nursing and leadership skills. Students work to improve health and health education for people of all ages. These experiences help nursing students better understand the social determinants of health and how they impact community members. Dedicated faculty members assist in guiding the students, who work collaboratively to exchange ideas and methods. This program not only has an effect on the community, but also has a profound impact on the students that participate.

scholarly journals Student counseling with nursing students from Universidad del Valle: Search, meeting, permanent challenge

1969 ◽  
Vol 42 (2 supl 1) ◽  
pp. 86-94
Author(s):  
Delia Burgos ◽  
Alcira Escobar ◽  
Martha Cecilia González
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Social Projection ◽  
Student Counseling ◽  
Human Care ◽  
The University

Introduction:  The issue of student counseling, as all the issues involved in a comprehensive higher education perspective, includes irresolvable tensions which are always enlightening in discovering the answer to the question: what kind of human beings are formed in the university and what kind of society is going to be built with them? The search for the answer to this question has meaning and matters to all instances and participants in the educational community.Student counseling, comprehensive education, and human care: The practice of Student Counseling includes opportunities for personal and professional growth, along with social projection of students and faculty. For the institution and its academic programs, it constitutes a field for the concrete appplication of the principles and goals of what «ought to be» according to the institutional mission at both levels. In caring for the «other», it is essential to know who that other is. Student Counseling in the School of Nursing at Universidad del Valle has been based on this premise. Its practice has demanded and enhanced knowing the students, their original contexts, expectations, concerns, and difficulties plus their human and professional potentials. The reflections presented here include facts and voices, learnings and processes, limits and scopes of this experience, seeking to recall a memory that demands a place and to contribute to the discussion, fortunately ever-present, about the student as the center and sense of every educational process.

scholarly journals A comparative descriptive survey of the professional values of final year student nurses in a college and a university in KwaZulu-Natal

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mumcy Zandile Malambe
Keyword(s):  
Student Nurses ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Professional Nurses ◽  
The University

Introduction: There have been a lot of complaints from the public about professional nurses’ conduct and lack of caring in South African health care facilities. Nurses don’t seem to care about patients and the public cannot trust the nurses due to the way nurses treat patients in the health care facilities. Student nurses are socialised with nursing professional values during their training either from a university or from a nursing college and are expected to have mastered these professional values by the final year of their studies before they go and practice as professional nurses. Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to describe and compare the professional values of final year student nurses in a college and a university in KwaZulu-Natal. Methodology: A quantitative survey design was used to describe and compare the professional values of final year student nurses doing the comprehensive four-year course. A validated Nurses Professional Value Scale (NPVS) 26 item revised questionnaire was used to collect data from 128 college and 83 university students after receiving ethical clearance. Non-probability sampling using a Random and consecutive sampling was used to select the college campuses and the students were selected using purposive sampling method. Analysis was undertaken using SPSS version 23. Results: The descriptive statistics reported on the five factors of the NPVS, which were patient privacy, ethical practice, activism, research and leadership. The majority of the sample viewed patient privacy and ethical practice as the most important values and leadership and research was rated low. There was a statistically significant difference in professional values between the college and the university respondents, with the university respondents scoring higher than the college respondents which indicated that university respondents had more professional values than college respondents. Recommendations: This included teaching and assessment of professional values, ethical practice in clinical placement, leadership training for student nurses and self- directed learning to update their knowledge and research.

scholarly journals Expectations of postgraduate nursing students: an inquiry

Curationis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Lekalakala-Mokgele
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Supervisory Relationship ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
Research Supervision ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
The University ◽  
Learning Contract

Postgraduate supervision in South Africa currently takes place in the context of university transformation with a notable increase in concern for quality. The latter is determined by the extent to which students’ expectations within a supervisory practice are met. This study investigated students’ expectations regarding their research supervision in a postgraduate nursing programme. A 48-item questionnaire was mailed to 24 postgraduate students, of which 22 (92%) responded, to determine their expectations within a supervisory relationship. Items in the questionnaire included students’ perceptions of the responsibilities of the institution, the department, the supervisor and students’ responsibilities regarding their supervised postgraduate studies in the School of Nursing Science. Descriptive statistics, namely frequencies and percentages for categorical data and means and standard deviations or medians and percentiles for continuous data, were calculated. Findings indicate that more than 80% of the postgraduate students in the study expected the university and the department to provide them with structures that would enable them to succeed in their studies. They also believed that the student had a major role to play in ensuring that studies were completed. Recommendations included making a code of practice for postgraduate supervision available to students and the use of a learning contract to clarify roles and expectations in the supervisory process. It was also recommended that supervisors should be trained to supervise students.

Power, Rhetoric, and Partnership: Primary Health Care and Pie in the Sky

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delamie Thompson ◽  
Ann Smith ◽  
Terry Hallom ◽  
E. Durrenberger
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Human Services ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
The University

Talk of "partnerships" between communities and primary health care professionals is widely recognized as a valuable selling point of programs competing for grant dollars and community sites. How the partnership manifests itself varies. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to a school of nursing, one such program was presented to a Chicago community as having two equal goals: delivery of primary health care to the community; and the education of nursing students. Community Health Advocates were hired to work in the center with a registered nurse to facilitate access to the local neighborhood. This core group maintains the daily functions of the center and are the first three authors of this paper. Nursing students and faculty from the university provide services at the site on the university's schedule to meet the university's goals. In this paper the core staff reflects on the experience and discusses the clash of professional and community standards, objectives, and perspectives, which results in fragmented service

scholarly journals Nursing Students Perceptions on the Use of Preceptors to Improve Clinical Competence at the University of Namibia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Simon Paulus ◽  
Daniel Opotamutale Ashipala ◽  
Kristofina Amakali ◽  
Aron Kamenye Aron
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Clinical Competence ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
The University

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of nursing students in relation to the use of preceptors to improve their clinical competence at the School of Nursing at the University of Namibia. Thus, the objectives of the study were to assess and describe the perceptions of nursing students regarding the use of preceptors to improve their clinical competence with a view to make recommendations based on the findings of the study. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional design was used with a total of 100 nursing students from all four cohorts for the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) (Clinical) at one of the university campuses being conveniently to participate in the study. Self-administered questionnaire were used to collect the data from the participants. The data derived from the questionnaire was analysed using SPSS version 24. The findings from the study revealed, inter alia, that 70% of the participants indicated that the use of preceptors has a positive effect on the students&rsquo; clinical competence. The study therefore recommended sustainment and strengthening of preceptorship strategies for clinical accompaniment of students. Notwithstanding positive findings, the study also recommends improvement of skills for teaching and time management skill, punctual report on duty and efficient utilization of clinical time for preceptors for more efficient implementation of student teaching during clinical accompaniment.

scholarly journals Consumption of benzodiazepines without prescription among first-year nursing students at the University of Guayaquil, school of nursing, Ecuador

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (spe) ◽  
pp. 634-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nivia Pinos Paredes ◽  
Adriana Inocenti Miasso ◽  
Carlos Renato Tirapelli
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Public University ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
The University

This study aimed to determine the consumption of benzodiazepines without prescription among first-year students from a nursing school of a public University in Ecuador. This is a descriptive, transversal and explanatory study with a quantitative approach. A questionnaire was used for data collection. The population studied was of 181 students. The results showed that 10.5% of the students had consumed benzodiazepine without prescription once in their lives. Of these, 6.1% consumed benzodiazepine in the last year, and 3.9% are currently consuming it. The diazepam was the most consumed BZD without prescription and pharmacies, were the place of higher access. The main reasons for the benzodiazepine consumption were: insomnia, anxiety, stress, depression, family and economical problems. The use of benzodiazepines with non-medicinal purposes is related to problems such as memory loss, retirement syndrome and sedation. When benzodiazepines are consumed jointly with alcohol or other drugs they can lead to coma or death. This study shows the serious consequences benzodiazepines cause when used by nursing students in Ecuador.

scholarly journals Nursing Student’s Perception Regarding Health Promotion and Health Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
The University

Background: Promoting health is a key component of nursing practice- By helping nurses change individuals, society and healthcare system by promoting the health of individuals, families, communities and populations. Purpose: The aim of the study is to show the understanding of nursing student’s perception regarding health education and health promotion. Study design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Lahore School of Nursing, the University of Lahore. Duration: 4 months from September 2019 to December 2019. Methodology: this study was done on 135 nursing students selected through convenient sampling method from Lahore School of Nursing, the University of Lahore. Data was collected by modified questionnaire adopted from (Halcomb, 2010) to understand the perception of nursing students regarding health promotion and health education [1]. Results: This study finds out that 90% n=122 participants have positive perception regarding health promotion and health education. Although there were some signs that nursing students were introduced to the concept of health promotion as a socioecological strategy that integrates changes in the economy, policy, organization and climate. This socio-ecological approach was not viewed by the majority of student nurses as having a role modeling faculty or nurses. Conclusion: students nurses to be recognized as future high quality health promoters, collaborates with wellbeing advancement leaders, and effectively teach nursing education. There is a need to made changes in the nursing curriculum to reflect appropriate and accurate health promotion concepts and performed health promoting behaviours which have strong impact on individual health.

scholarly journals Factors contributing to students’ satisfaction with direct observation of procedural skills in the school of nursing sciences at the University of Zambia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Martha Mbewe ◽  
Natalia Mbewe ◽  
Catherine M. Ngoma
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Procedural Skills ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
The University ◽  
Students Satisfaction

Direct observation of procedural skills is an evidence-based assessment tool used for assessing competence in the practical procedures that nursing students undertake during clinical placement. Having knowledge about students’ satisfaction with their educational issues is very important as it helps both faculty and students to achieve educational goals. However factors that may influence student satisfaction with this method of assessment are not known in the school of nursing sciences at the University of Zambia. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing student satisfaction with direct observation of procedural skills in order to get students views on this assessment tool. A cross sectional quantitative survey was used on ninety two (92) conveniently sampled final year undergraduate nursing students. Data were collected using a validated self-reported questionnaire and analysed using IBM SPSS Version 20. Fisher’s exact tests were used to determine association between student satisfaction and the independent variables. A p-value of ≤ .05 was considered statistically significant. Major findings revealed that poor clinical environment 98.9% and faculty non availability 98% influenced student’s satisfaction negatively. Other significant associations where clinical experiences, and feedback, with p ≤ .05. In conclusion, the major factors that influenced student satisfaction included poor clinical environment which was not conducive for assessments as it lacked many essential medical surgical supplies and non-availability of faculty in the clinical area who were needed to provide feedback, guidance and supervision to the students. Improving the clinical environment, ensuring faculty availability in order to provide timely and constructive feedback may help students achieve their learning objectives. Direct observation of procedural skills still remains an appropriate tool to assess student clinical competence. However, further research and development of cheap, less stressful and economic methods of clinical evaluation to blend with this tool is required in the school of nursing sciences.

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