How The Department Will Support Student Exposure Through Its Various Initiatives

How the department will support student exposure through its
various initiatives
Nurses’ competence is based on the knowledge and skill taught to them. Nursing
training is a combination of theoretical and practical learning experiences that
enable nursing students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for
providing nursing care.
Nursing education is composed of two complementary parts: theoretical training
and practical training. A large part of nursing education is carried out in clinical
environments.
Many other countries, clinical education forms more than half of the formal
educational courses in nursing. Therefore, clinical education is considered to be
an essential and integral part of the nursing education program. Since nursing is
a performance-based profession, clinical learning environments play an
important role in the acquisition of professional abilities and train the nursing
students to enter the nursing profession and become a registered nurse. Moreover,
the clinical area of nursing education is of great importance for nursing students
in the selection or rejection of nursing as a profession.
Unlike classroom education, clinical training in nursing occurs in a complex
clinical learning environment which is influenced by many factors. This
environment provides an opportunity for nursing students to learn experimentally
and to convert theoretical knowledge to a variety of mental, psychological, and
psychomotor skills which are of significance for patient care. Students’ exposure
and preparation to enter the clinical setting are one of the important factors
affecting the quality of clinical education.
Since an optimal clinical learning environment has a positive impact on the
students’ professional development, a poor learning environment can have
adverse effects on their professional development process. The unpredictable
nature of the clinical training environment can create some problems for nursing
students.
The researchers’ experience in the nursing clinical education reveals that nursing
students’ behaviors and performances change in the clinical setting. This change
can negatively affect their learning, progress in patient care, and professional
performance. Identifying problems and challenges with which these students are
faced in the clinical learning environment can help stakeholders solve these
problems and contribute to them becoming professional as well as their
professional survival.
Failure to identify the challenges and problems the students are faced with in the
clinical learning environment prevents them from effective learning and growth.
As a result, the growth and development of their skills will be influenced [4].
Studies show that the students’ noneffective exposure to the clinical learning
environment has increased dropout rates. Some nursing students have left the
profession as a result of challenges they face in the clinical setting.
Many studies have been done on the clinical environment. Some relevant studies
have also been carried out in our country; however, most of them have focused
on clinical evaluation or stress factors in the clinical training. One study showed
that nursing students are vulnerable in the clinical environment and this reduces
their satisfaction with the clinical training. Moreover, the nursing students’ lack
of knowledge and skills in the clinical environment can lead to anxiety.
Yazdannik and colleagues found that nursing students suffered from inferiority
complex after entering the clinic.
According to a review of the literature, few studies have been done on the
challenges nursing students are faced with in the clinical learning environment in
Iran; these challenges are still unknown. Identifying challenges with which
nursing students are faced in the clinical learning environment in all dimensions
could improve training and enhance the quality of its planning and the promotion
of the students. We aimed to explain the challenges of the nursing students in the
clinical learning environment.

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