scholarly journals Through the eyes of the student: Best practices in clinical facilitation

Curationis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Immaculate S. Muthathi ◽  
Catherine H. Thurling ◽  
Susan J. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Skills Laboratory

Background: Clinical facilitation is an essential part of the undergraduate nursing curriculum. A number of studies address the issue of clinical facilitation in South Africa, but there remains a lack of knowledge and understanding regarding what students perceive as best practice in clinical facilitation of their learning.Objective: To determine what type of clinical facilitation undergraduate students believe should be offered by clinical facilitators (nurse educators, professional nurses and clinical preceptors) in the clinical area in order to best facilitate their learning.Method: A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study was conducted. Purposive sampling was performed to select nursing students from the second, third and fourth year of studies from a selected nursing education institution in Johannesburg. The sampling resulted in one focus group for each level of nursing, namely second, third and fourth year nursing students. Interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed verbatim, thematic data analysis was used and trustworthiness was ensured by applying credibility, dependability, confirmability and transferability.Main findings: The data revealed that participants differentiated between best practices in clinical facilitation in the clinical skills laboratory and clinical learning environment. In the clinical skills laboratory, pre-contact preparation, demonstration technique and optimising group learning were identified as best practices. In the clinical learning environment, a need for standardisation of procedures in simulation and practice, the allocation and support for students also emerged.Conclusion: There is a need for all nurses involved in undergraduate nursing education to reflect on how they approach clinical facilitation, in both clinical skills laboratory and clinical learning environment. There is also a need to improve consistency in clinical practices between the nursing education institution and the clinical learning environment so as to support students’ adaptation to clinical practice.

Perception regarding clinical learning environment among undergraduate nursing students

2021 ◽  
pp. 451-457
Author(s):  
Shaveta Sharma ◽  
Jogindra Vati
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Clinical Staff ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

Clinical experience is an integral aspect of nursing education as it transforms the theoretical knowledge into practice and the cornerstone of nursing as a health profession. The experience gained through a good and supportive clinical environment includes the atmosphere of the clinical placement unit, and the relationships shared with clinical staff supervisors (staff nurses) and mentors (Clinical instructors) that will affect the students learning. Elements like good teaching, relationship with the clinical staff and opportunity to practice, need to be assessed to have an understanding of the student’s perception regarding clinical learning environment. The aim of the present study was to assess the clinical learning environment among undergraduate nursing students of various colleges of Punjab. Materials and methods: A non experimental, descriptive research design was used to assess the perception regarding clinical learning environment among undergraduate nursing students. SECEE inventory (student evaluation of clinical education environment) by Kari Jecklin - Sand was used to determine the clinical learning environment. Five Nursing institutions were selected conveniently to select 500 under graduate nursing students randomly. Results and Major Findings: The findings of the study revealed that Majority (68%) of the study subjects were satisfied with their clinical learning environment followed by 30.8% who were moderately satisfied and only 1.2% were unsatisfied with their clinical learning environment. As per the Personal Profile of the study subjects, age and gender were found highly significant with the perceived clinical environment score at the 0.01 level of significance whereas no significant association was found out with the habitat, marital status, type of family, place of stay during study and financing during study. As per the family background, mother’s occupation was found highly associated with the clinical learning environment score whereas no association was found with the annual income of parents, education of mother, education of father, father’s occupation and number of siblings.

scholarly journals Creating a positive learning environment for adult

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Roshdi A.Mostafa
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Clinical Teaching ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Mean Difference ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Actual Form ◽  
Positive Learning Environment

The key requirements for creating a positive learning environment do not come readily packaged. Instructors can then implement the concepts to keep students motivated and engaged in the learning process.  The aim of study is to Creating a Positive Learning Environment for Adults; by assessing Nursing Students perceptions regarding Clinical Learning Environments in Beni – Suef University (actual and expected). A sample of 127 students in nursing faculty, Beni–Suef University from third and fourth grade in the first semester of the academic year 2014/2015.Tools: Structured interviewing questionnaire sheet, which include: Tool (1):  Socio demographic data, Tool (2): the Clinical Learning Environment Inventory (CLEI) originally developed by Professor Chan (2001).Results: The results indicated that there were significant differences between the preferred and actual form in all six scales. In other word, comparing with the actual form, the mean scores of all items in the preferred form were higher. The maximum mean difference was in innovation and the highest mean difference was in involvement scale. Conclusion: It is concluded that nursing students do not have a positive perception of their actual clinical teaching environment and this perception is significantly different from their perception of their expected environment. Key words: adult learner, positive learning environment, Clinical learning environment, Nursing education, Nursing student

scholarly journals Clinical learning environment of nursing and midwifery students in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Assibi Ziba ◽  
Vida Nyagre Yakong ◽  
Zakari Ali
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Clinical Placement ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Team Supervision

Abstract Background Data on student experience of the clinical learning environment in Ghana are scarce. We therefore aimed to assess students’ evaluation of the clinical learning environment and the factors that influence their learning experience.Methods This was a cross-sectional survey of 225 undergraduate nursing and midwifery students. We used the Clinical Learning Environment and Supervision + Nurse Teacher (CLES +T) evaluation scale to assess students’ experience of their clinical placement. The association between student demographic characteristics and clinical placement experience was determined using t-test or ANOVA.Results Most of the sampled students were Nurses (67%) and in the third year of training (81%). More students received supervision from a nurse (57%) during clinical placement and team supervision (67%) was the most common during clinical placement. Nursing students were more likely to rate their clinical experience better than midwifery students (p=0.002). Students who had increased contact with private supervisors were also more likely to rate their experience higher (p=0.002). Clinical experience was also rated higher by students who received successful supervision compared to those who had unsuccessful or team supervision (p=0.001).Conclusion Team supervision is high in health facilities where students undertake clinical placement in Ghana. Frequent contact with private supervisor and successful supervision are associated with better rating of clinical experience among Ghanaian undergraduate nursing and midwifery students.

scholarly journals The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher Scale (CLES+T): psychometric properties measured in the context of postgraduate nursing education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Ozga ◽  
Aleksandra Gutysz-Wojnicka ◽  
Bogumił Lewandowski ◽  
Beata Dobrowolska
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Supervisory Relationship ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing

Abstract Background. The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher Scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFG5RyQPqY(CLES+T) instrument is internationally used for the evaluation of clinical learning environment in undergraduate nursing education. However, no evidence is available on the possible applications of this instrument in the context of postgraduate nursing education. Purpose. To examine the basic psychometric properties of CLES+T in the context of clinical postgraduate nursing education in Poland.Methods. Study among a sample of 417 nurses participating in the clinical postgraduate training in Poland. Results. Cronbach’s alpha for the total scale was 0.97. A five-factor structure was confirmed in accordance with the assumptions adopted by the authors of the original version of the scale. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the Polish version of the CLES+T subscales ranged from 0.83 (Nursing care on the ward) to 0.95 (The content of supervisory relationship). The mean results for individual subscales ranged from 4.52±0.63 for nursing care on the ward to 4.73±0.45 for role of the nurse teacher. Conclusions. Having shown satisfactory psychometric properties, CLES+T can be considered a useful instrument to assess those elements of clinical learning environment which are important for the assurance of education quality at the postgraduate level.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Nursing Students in the Clinical Learning Environment: A Qualitative Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahid Jamshidi ◽  
Zahra Molazem ◽  
Farkhondeh Sharif ◽  
Camellia Torabizadeh ◽  
Majid Najafi Kalyani
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Teaching Learning

Background/Aim. Clinical learning is a main part of nursing education. Students’ exposure to clinical learning environment is one of the most important factors affecting the teaching-learning process in clinical settings. Identifying challenges of nursing students in the clinical learning environment could improve training and enhance the quality of its planning and promotion of the students. We aimed to explore Iranian nursing students’ challenges in the clinical learning environment.Materials and Methods. This is a qualitative study using the content analysis approach. The participants consisted of seventeen nursing students and three nursing instructors. The participants were selected through purposive sampling method and attended semistructured interviews and focus groups.Results. Three themes emerged after data analysis, including ineffective communications, inadequate readiness, and emotional reactions.Conclusion. Nursing students in Iran are faced with many challenges in the clinical learning environment. All challenges identified in this study affected the students’ learning in clinical setting. Therefore, we recommend that the instructors prepare students with a specific focus on their communication and psychological needs.

scholarly journals The relationship between undergraduate nursing students' satisfaction about clinical learning environment and their competency self-efficacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Azza Fathi Ibrahim ◽  
Thoraya Mohamed Abdelaziz ◽  
Dalal Talaat Akel
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Clinical Nursing ◽  
The Relationship

Competency self-efficacy (CSE) in clinical nursing practice is necessitated to be attained by the undergraduate nursing students. It is a significant indicator of the work's acceptance and commitment to nursing roles. Self-efficacy in nursing experience enhances nursing student's abilities to achieve the clinical tasks independently, mainly in wide range field of care like Medical-Surgical Nursing. Some factors are affecting competency self-efficacy in the clinical nursing practice; the most evident factor is the nursing student’s impressions with their clinical learning environment (CLE). In the light of educational preparation for nursing undergraduates, the Faculties of Nursing emphasize to preserve a high quality of clinical learning environment for clinical nursing essentials. The clinical learning environment has an apparent function in building up students' confidence, and competency self-efficacy, particularly, during clinical skills achievement. The current paper aimed to determine undergraduate nursing student's satisfaction about the clinical learning environment and their competency self-efficacy, and then investigate the relationship between both variables. Thus, the study conducted through a descriptive, correlative research design with all nursing students who enrolled in third and fourth academic semesters (second year) during their clinical training in Medical-Surgical Nursing course, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt. A triple-section questionnaire was used for data collection: First; nursing student’s sociodemographic profile, Second: Clinical Learning Environment Inventory (CLEI) which was constructed by Chan in 2002. Third: Nursing Competency Self Efficacy Scale (CSES) which was developed by Kennedy in 2013. The results showed that the undergraduate nursing students at Medical-Surgical training, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, have a high satisfaction level about the clinical learning environment concerning all components of the clinical placement. As well, they have a high competency self-efficacy level in all nursing activities and tasks in the clinical training. Further, there is an obvious parallel correlation between nursing student's satisfaction about clinical learning environment and their competency self-efficacy which is significant. Conclusion & Recommendations: Adequate and planned arrangements should be settled in the nursing curricula for the nursing clinical training setting. Too, the clinical instructors should encourage students' trials to do difficult nursing tasks in a successful manner which tends to increase the student's competency self-efficacy. Further researches are required to investigate the factors affecting clinical learning environment satisfaction and competency self-efficacy among nursing students in their clinical placement. Additionally, another research is necessary about; developing an educational program about student's competency self-efficacy to guide nursing instructors in clinical training.

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