Sharif Farkhondeh, Masoumi Sara
Psychiatric Nursing Department, Fatemeh (P.B.U.H) College of Nursing and Midwifery Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Zand BlvD, Shiraz, Iran.
BMC Nurs. 2005 Nov 9;4:6. doi: 10.1186/1472-6955-4-6.
Nursing student's experiences of their clinical practice provide greater insight to develop an effective clinical teaching strategy in nursing education. The main objective of this study was to investigate student nurses' experience about their clinical practice.
Focus groups were used to obtain students' opinion and experiences about their clinical practice. 90 baccalaureate nursing students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery) were selected randomly from two hundred students and were arranged in 9 groups of ten students. To analyze the data the method used to code and categories focus group data were adapted from approaches to qualitative data analysis.
Four themes emerged from the focus group data. From the students' point of view," initial clinical anxiety", "theory-practice gap"," clinical supervision", professional role", were considered as important factors in clinical experience.
The result of this study showed that nursing students were not satisfied with the clinical component of their education. They experienced anxiety as a result of feeling incompetent and lack of professional nursing skills and knowledge to take care of various patients in the clinical setting.
护理专业学生的临床实习经历有助于深入了解如何制定有效的护理教育临床教学策略。本研究的主要目的是调查护生对其临床实习的体验。
采用焦点小组法获取学生对其临床实习的看法和体验。设拉子医科大学(护理与助产学院)的90名本科护理专业学生从200名学生中随机选取,分成9组,每组10人。为分析数据,编码和分类焦点小组数据的方法采用定性数据分析方法。
焦点小组数据产生了四个主题。从学生的角度来看,“初次临床焦虑”“理论与实践差距”“临床督导”“专业角色”被认为是临床体验中的重要因素。
本研究结果表明,护理专业学生对其教育中的临床部分不满意。由于感到能力不足以及缺乏在临床环境中照顾各类患者的专业护理技能和知识,他们感到焦虑。