Department of Nursing, Scott College of Nursing, Morija, Lesotho; and, Department of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
Curationis. 2022 May 30;45(1):e1-e8. doi: 10.4102/curationis.v45i1.2260.
In order to ensure an effective health system, there is a need to recruit, train and deploy a competent nursing workforce. A competent workforce can be made possible by integrating simulation into the curriculum. Implementation of simulation-based education in Lesotho is facing a number of challenges as the country has limited resources.
This study aimed to describe nurse educators and students' perspectives on ways to improve implementation of simulation-based education in Lesotho.
A qualitative study was conducted. A total of 24 students, 24 nurse educators and 4 principals who were purposely selected participated in the study. Focus group discussions as one of the data collection methods were used to collect data from the nurse educators and students whilst in-depth, unstructured individual interviews were used with the principals. Data were analysed following the Corbin and Strauss grounded theory approach where similar codes were categorised together as part of open coding, and axial coding was conducted by refining the codes and organising them into categories and subcategories.
Two categories emerged from the areas where improvement is required: resources to support simulation. Resources emerged as playing a major role in ensuring quality simulation. The teaching and learning process emerged as collaborative in nature with all key players ensuring that they meet their responsibilities in order to ensure effective simulation-based learning.
The study revealed that there are limited numbers of simulation facilitators and this hinders effective implementation of simulation. Students are concerned about the comments of educators during simulation, as some of the comments are belittling.
为了确保有效的卫生系统，需要招聘、培训和部署有能力的护理人员。通过将模拟融入课程，可以培养有能力的员工。由于莱索托资源有限，模拟为基础的教育的实施面临着许多挑战。
本研究旨在描述护士教育者和学生对改善莱索托模拟教育实施的看法。
进行了一项定性研究。共有 24 名学生、24 名护士教育者和 4 名校长被选中参加了这项研究。使用焦点小组讨论作为数据收集方法之一，从护士教育者和学生那里收集数据，而对于校长则使用深入的、非结构化的个人访谈。数据分析遵循 Corbin 和 Strauss 的扎根理论方法，其中相似的代码被归类在一起作为开放编码的一部分，然后通过精炼代码并将其组织成类别和子类别来进行轴向编码。
从需要改进的领域中出现了两个类别：支持模拟的资源。资源在确保高质量模拟方面起着重要作用。教与学的过程是协作性的，所有的主要参与者都确保履行自己的职责，以确保有效的基于模拟的学习。
研究表明，模拟促进者的数量有限，这阻碍了模拟的有效实施。学生们对教育者在模拟过程中的评论感到担忧，因为有些评论是贬低性的。
