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.

Experiences of Postgraduate Nursing Students at the University of Namibia

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Sikongo ◽  
Daniel Opotamutale Ashipala ◽  
Louise Pretorius
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Academic Factors ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Positive Learning Environment ◽  
Improvement Measures ◽  
The University

While the number of students who choose to enrol in various postgraduate academic programmes continues to increase, the number of postgraduate students who graduate each year remains low. This requires institutions of higher learning to establish which factors and study modes are likely to promote an environment that is conducive to learning for postgraduate students. The experiences of postgraduate students can be used to promote a positive learning environment for postgraduate students. The objective of this study was to explore and describe the experiences of postgraduate nursing students enrolled in postgraduate nursing diploma coursework and research at the University of Namibia with a view to describe what aspects affect their learning. An exploratory, descriptive and qualitative design was used. The study was contextual in nature. A sample of seven students participated in the study. Purposive sampling was used. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews conducted with seven postgraduate diploma nursing students. The data were analysed through qualitative content analysis. The following four themes were identified: individual experiences, academic factors, institutional factors, and suggested improvement measures which included an improved research approval process and institutional support system to enhance postgraduate studies. The findings of this study highlighted the need for well-articulated actions to deal with the negative challenges identified in the study by offering more academic support to the students during their research proposals and research project writing.

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.

Postgraduate Environmental Education Research: Meeting the Needs of the Community

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harris ◽  
Ian Robottom
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Powerful Learning ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Research Meeting ◽  
The University

AbstractThis article reports on experiences gained in two postgraduate programs in environmental education—one at the University of Canberra and one at Deakin University. The paper draws from the work of several postgraduate students who are exploring environmental issues in their communities as part of their postgraduate studies. The paper addresses some issues associated with community-based environmental education, including:• research as participation in the critical appraisal of environmental situations• the need for the research to be responsive to the needs and interests of the community• the role of the researcher as change agent.The article concludes that community-based environmental education research is a powerful learning experience for postgraduate students who are at the forefront of the research process and communicating directly with the community.

Attracting International Postgraduate Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Othman Che Puan ◽  
M. Al–Muz–Zammil Yasin ◽  
Ahmad Kamal Idris ◽  
Mohd Sofian Mohd Amran
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Global Player ◽  
World Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

A university has to carry out various marketing strategies and efforts to recruit international students as many as possible in order to fulfil one of the criteria for a world–class university status. However, to attract quality candidates with the desirable profile is becoming increasingly difficult especially when the university has to compete internationally and nationally with the existing and new emerging universities. This paper discusses the findings of a study carried out to establish the factors considered by international students before they decided to come to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for their postgraduate studies. A total sample of 896 international students from various fields of studies for three different intakes was used in the study. The result shows that the main factors considered by them are the availability of the programme, reputation, the conduciveness of the campus environment for teaching and learning, and the location of the university. Most of them agreed that internet and education fairs or expositions are effective marketing medium for the recruitment of international students. This study provides an evidence–based framework to be considered by the University in formulating strategies and efforts to become a global player in higher education.

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’ 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.

Self-schemes Among Postgraduate Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Marcus Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Pearson Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
The University

1- Recognizing the level of self-schemes of postgraduate students. 2- Identifying the differences in the level of self-schemes among postgraduate students according to the variables (gender, specialization and stage . The research sample (construction and application) consisted of (400) male and female students in the faculties of the University of Al-Qadisiyah, they were chosen randomly according to the Department of postgraduate Studies at the University of Al-Qadisiyah, with (156) males, (174) females from the master’s degree, and (38) males, (32) PhD female. The researcher used a research tool, which is building a self-scheme scale. first: The scale of the self-schemes that the researcher built according to Marcus theory (Markus, 1977), which consisted of (45) declarative paragraphs, under which five alternatives fall, and each alternative represents a degree of the self-schemes degrees The psychometric properties of the scale were verified from the apparent validity, construct validity and stability by the method of analysis of variance (Cronbach's alpha) and halving, where the statistical means were used (percentage, t-test for two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman-Brown equation, variance, standard deviation, skewness ) .

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 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.

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