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.

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 Assessment of nursing students in clinical practice - An intervention study of a modified process

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Baumgartner ◽  
Cecilia Häckter Ståhl ◽  
Katri Manninen ◽  
Ann-Marie Rydholm Hedman
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The University ◽  
Modified Assessment

Objective: To evaluate an intervention of a modified assessment process for nursing students in clinical practice and how this process was experienced by the nursing students and their supervisors.Methods: An intervention study with a descriptive approach. The data collection was conducted in two phases with a survey and follow-up group interviews. Participants were second-year nursing students and their nursing supervisors. Descriptive statistics were used for the quantitative data (survey) and qualitative content analysis for the qualitative data (tape-record and transcribed interviews). Mixed method was used to integrate all data.Findings: The survey response rate was 65% (n = 41 students) and 100% (n = 9 supervisors). Students and supervisors found the assessment tool applicable for the assessment process. Assessment through dialogue and Supportive learning environment, describe how the modified assessment process was experienced.Conclusions and implication for clinical practice: It is important that the supervisors understand the learning goals and assessment criteria and how to use the assessment tool. Clear structures based on learning goals and assessment criteria as well as their own strategies to reach their goals benefit student learning. Strategies need to be developed to facilitate the assessment process when the teachers from the university have a consulative role. The new assessment tool and changing the university teachers’ involvement can be seen as a form of professional development of the supervisors’ group as they take greater responsibility in conducting the assessment of nursing students in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Assessing International Opportunities in Higher Education: A Matrix-based Assessment Tool

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Sophie R. Kaufman ◽  
David N. Ekstrom ◽  
Lillie M. Shortridge-Baggett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Product Portfolio ◽  
Matrix Approach ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
Nursing Course

Faced with a growing number of international opportunities, the Lienhard School of Nursing at Pace University adapted a business model to assess which opportunities to pursue. Employing a product portfolio matrix approach, the International Opportunities Assessment (IOA) Tool was developed to assess new international ventures using the parameters of Market Attractiveness and Institutional Resources. The tool was piloted on a study abroad nursing course featuring a trip to Iceland. The tool assisted in prioritizing program development for international opportunities.  In this article, we will describe the development of this tool and, in order to demonstrate its use, we will provide an example of its application in the assessment of a study abroad course for nursing students at the Lienhard School of Nursing, Pace University.

scholarly journals Simulation in cardiorespiratory arrest: assessment of satisfaction with the learning of nursing students

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Chlalup Linn ◽  
Emiliane Nogueira de Souza ◽  
Rita Catalina Aquino Caregnato
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Arrest ◽  
Cardiorespiratory Arrest ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Clinical Simulation ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Simulation Scenario ◽  
Students Satisfaction

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the satisfaction and self-confidence of undergraduate nursing students’ learning in a scenario of realistic clinical simulation with the theme of advanced cardiopulmonary arrest maneuvers. Method: Exploratory-descriptive study, with a quantitative approach. In order to evaluate the simulation activity developed undergraduate nursing students responded to the Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence with Learning Scale. Results: 19 students participated in the study. Students’ satisfaction and self-confidence with learning were identified, with an average of 4.17 ± 0.59 in the developed scenario. In the subscale of satisfaction with current learning and in the subscale of self-confidence with learning, 86.3% and 76.6% of students scored the items in a maximum way (4-5), respectively. Conclusion: Nursing students demonstrate satisfaction and self-confidence with learning from a realistic clinical simulation scenario on the theme of advanced cardiorespiratory arrest maneuvers.

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.

scholarly journals An evaluation of the use of direct observation of procedural skills in the intercollegiate surgical curriculum programme

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (9) ◽  
pp. e10-e13
Author(s):  
A Mathew ◽  
JD Beard ◽  
M Bussey
Keyword(s):  
Direct Observation ◽  
Learner Satisfaction ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Procedural Skills ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
Workplace Based Assessment ◽  
Evaluation Exercise ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Case Based

The Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP) ( www.iscp.ac.uk ) is a UK-wide collaborative project involving all the surgical royal colleges and the specialty associations involved in surgical training. Workplace-based assessment (WBA) refers to the assessment of day-to-day working practice 1 and is an integral part of the ISCP assessment framework. The main aim of WBA is to aid learning through constructive feedback. Several WBAs have been adopted by the ISCP including the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX), direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS), case-based discussion (CBD) and procedure-based assessment (PBA). A systematic review of WBAs concluded that there was no clear evidence to show that DOPS can lead to improvements in performance but identified studies that showed largely positive results in terms of learner satisfaction. 2

scholarly journals The Effect of Applying Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS) on Nursing Students' Clinical Skills: A Randomized Clinical Trial

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Habibi Hengameh ◽  
Raiesifar Afsaneh ◽  
Khaghanizade Morteza ◽  
Mahmudi Hosein ◽  
Seyed Mazhari Marjan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trial ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Procedural Skills
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