Factors hindering clinical training of students in selected nursing educational institutions in Southeastern Nigeria

Clinical training is an integral part of professional nursing education as it equips students with the required knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values needed for optimal practice in real-life situations. Inappropriate professional attributes have been observed among nursing graduates, while challe...

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Published in:Nurse education today 2016-05, Vol.40, p.140-145
Main Authors: Anarado, Agnes N., Agu, Grace U., Nwonu, Eunice I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquisition
Attitude of Health Personnel
Attributes
Classrooms
Clinical Competence - standards
Clinical experience
Clinical medicine
Clinical nursing
Clinical skills
Clinical training
College students
Cross-Sectional Studies
Demonstrations & protests
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - standards
Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs - standards
Educational programs
Faculty, Nursing - standards
Female
Health care management
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Hindering factors
Humans
Inappropriateness
Infrastructure
Male
Medical education
Nigeria
Nursing
Nursing education
Nursing Education Research
Nursing students
Nursing, Supervisory - standards
Preceptors
Professional attribute acquisition
Professional knowledge
Professional practice
Questionnaires
Role models
Students, Nursing - statistics & numerical data
Supervision
Supervisors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teacher Participation
Teachers
Training environment
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Summary:Clinical training is an integral part of professional nursing education as it equips students with the required knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values needed for optimal practice in real-life situations. Inappropriate professional attributes have been observed among nursing graduates, while challenges to acquisition of clinical skills have been understudied in Nigeria. This study investigated system factors related to the provision of infrastructure/equipment, training/supervisory activities, and students' factors that may hinder clinical training of nursing students in two selected institutions in Southeastern Nigeria. This cross-sectional descriptive study purposively enlisted 283 students from a diploma and a degree nursing education program. Data were collected with researchers' developed questionnaire and analyzed in percentages, and means, with a mean decision criterion of
ISSN:0260-6917
1532-2793
DOI:10.1016/j.nedt.2016.02.022