MacKay Bev, Harding Thomas
Department of Nursing and Health, NorthTec, Whangarei.
Nurs Prax N Z. 2009 Jul;25(2):30-40.
Lecturer support for nursing students in clinical placements is essential to assist students in consolidating their clinical experience and making links between theory and practice. The primary health care context poses challenges different from those of secondary or tertiary clinical settings. To deal with these challenges in primary health care settings a project using eTXT and SMS (Short Message Service) was introduced. This provides M-Support for students via a lecturer's computer and students' mobile phones. M-Support was provided to motivate, support and communicate with these student nurses. To evaluate the project a mixed methodology using data from surveys, eTXT and mobile phone message history, and a lecturer's field notes were used. Findings demonstrated that the introduction of this innovation reduced barriers to timely and effective support that arise from the mobile nature of some primary health care nursing roles and the geographical dispersion of placements across the region. These findings suggest that M-Support is an acceptable, cost-effective form of support to motivate, encourage and communicate with nursing students in primary health care clinical placements.
讲师在临床实习中对护生的支持对于帮助学生巩固临床经验以及建立理论与实践之间的联系至关重要。初级卫生保健环境带来了与二级或三级临床环境不同的挑战。为了应对初级卫生保健环境中的这些挑战，引入了一个使用电子文本（eTXT）和短信服务（SMS）的项目。这通过讲师的电脑和学生的手机为学生提供M支持。提供M支持是为了激励、支持这些实习护士并与他们沟通。为了评估该项目，采用了混合方法，使用了来自调查、电子文本和手机短信历史记录的数据以及讲师的现场记录。研究结果表明，这项创新的引入减少了因一些初级卫生保健护理工作的流动性以及实习地点在该地区的地理分散性而产生的及时有效支持的障碍。这些研究结果表明，M支持是一种可接受的、具有成本效益的支持形式，用于在初级卫生保健临床实习中激励、鼓励和与护生沟通。
