scholarly journals Satisfaction on clinical learning environment among nursing students of selected medical colleges of Chitwan, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Prativa Dhakal ◽  
Taniya Thapa

Background: Clinical learning environment includes everything that surrounds students and is extremely beneficial in stimulating their critical thinking and affects their professional de­velopment via focus on clinical judgment and decision–making in the clinical setting. This study aims to assess the level of satisfaction on clinical learning environment among nursing students of selected medical colleges of Chitwan, Nepal. Methods: Descriptive, cross sectional study design was used to assess the satisfaction on clinical learning environment among nursing students of selected medical colleges of Chitwan. Standard tool (CLES + T scale) was administered among 242 nursing students. Data was entered in IBM Sta­tistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20.0 and was further analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Results: Just more than half of the nursing students were highly satisfied (51.2%) with the clinical learning environment. The level of satisfaction among nursing students was found statistically sig­nificant with year of study and type of ward of latest clinical placement with p value <0.05. Conclusions: Nearly half of the students are still not highly satisfied towards their clinical learning environment, therefore improvement in its quality needs proper planning, implementation and supervision that too in government hospital settings.

Author(s):  
Laura Visiers‐Jiménez ◽  
Arja Suikkala ◽  
Leena Salminen ◽  
Helena Leino‐Kilpi ◽  
Eliisa Löyttyniemi ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
Gifty Nyante ◽  
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Emmanuel Asare ◽  
Jonathan Quartey ◽  
Samuel Koranteng Kwakye ◽  
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Background:Clinical education is an important and distinct part of health profession education in which students learn to consolidate theory into practice with the aim of gaining clinical competence and enhancing professional knowledge. Clinical knowledge and skills can be achieved through a conducive clinical learning environment with effective supervision. We aimedto determine physiotherapy students’ satisfaction on their clinical learning environment and supervision.Methodology:A cross-sectional study, which involved 85 physiotherapy students recruited with the convenience sampling technique from the Department of physiotherapy, University of Ghana who visited four accredited clinical sites. Participants who consented, completed an adapted Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher Evaluation Scale. Data collected was analysed using SPSS (version 20.0). Pearson’s Chi-square was used to test for association between variables.Results:Almost all 80 (94.1%) participants were satisfied with the clinical learning environment only, while more than half 52 (61.2%) had average level of satisfaction with the clinical learning environment and supervision. Majority 60 (80%) of participants had a high level of satisfaction with supervision only. The association between the participants’ satisfaction on the clinical learning environment and supervision was statistically significant (P < 0.001).Conclusion:Physiotherapy students are generally satisfied with their clinical learning environment and supervision. Periodic assessment of physiotherapy students’ satisfaction with clinical learning environment and supervision may be carried out in order to improve clinical leaning. Keywords: clinical education,clinical learning environment, clinical supervision, clinical supervisor, students’ satisfaction.


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