Mafumo Julia L, Maputle Maria S
Department of Advanced Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou.
Curationis. 2025 May 26;48(1):e1-e8. doi: 10.4102/curationis.v48i1.2732.
Students need resources in the clinical areas to integrate theory and practice. When healthcare facilities have limited resources, students encounter momentous challenges that negatively affect their learning and supervision.
To explore the experiences of nursing students during placements in limited-resourced clinical facilities.
A qualitative approach with a phenomenological design was used. The setting was four hospitals, where students were placed for clinical experience. The population was nursing students in the third and fourth levels of their study who were sampled purposively. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews and analysed using a coding method. Thematic analysis was done.
Limited staff led to poor student supervision and evaluation and absenteeism, and students were used as the working force, whereas limited resources led to the disintegration of theory and practice and procedures flawed.
Resources in healthcare facilities are significant in student supervision. Therefore, the management in those facilities needs to ensure that the resources are always available.Contribution: The study contributes to bringing to light how the limited resources impact students' learning and how this can impact future nursing practice.
学生需要临床领域的资源来整合理论与实践。当医疗保健机构资源有限时，学生会面临重大挑战，这些挑战会对他们的学习和监督产生负面影响。
探讨护理专业学生在资源有限的临床机构实习期间的经历。
采用质性研究方法，设计为现象学研究。研究地点为四家医院，学生在这些医院进行临床实习。研究对象为三、四年级的护理专业学生，采用目的抽样法选取。通过面对面的半结构化访谈收集数据，并使用编码方法进行分析。进行了主题分析。
工作人员有限导致对学生的监督、评估不力以及学生缺勤，学生被当作劳动力使用，而资源有限导致理论与实践脱节，程序存在缺陷。
医疗保健机构的资源对学生监督至关重要。因此，这些机构的管理层需要确保资源随时可用。贡献：该研究有助于揭示资源有限如何影响学生学习以及这可能如何影响未来的护理实践。
