A qualitative study of nursing student experiences of clinical practice

BACKGROUND: Nursing student's experiences of their clinical practice provide greater insight to develop an effective clinical teaching strategy in nursing education. The main objective of this study was to investigate student nurses' experience about their clinical practice. METHODS: Focus groups were used to obtain students' opinion and experiences about their clinical practice. 90 baccalaureate nursing students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery) were selected randomly from two hundred students and were arranged in 9 groups of ten students. To analyze the data the method used to code and categories focus group data were adapted from approaches to qualitative data analysis. RESULTS: Four themes emerged from the focus group data. From the students' point of view," initial clinical anxiety", "theory-practice gap"," clinical supervision", professional role", were considered as important factors in clinical experience. CONCLUSION: The result of this study showed that nursing students were not satisfied with the clinical component of their education. They experienced anxiety as a result of feeling incompetent and lack of professional nursing skills and knowledge to take care of various patients in the clinical setting

Rancang Bangun Media Pembelajaran Bagi Murid Sekolah Menengah Pertama Luar Biasa (SMPLB) 1 Palangka Raya

Science and technology are growing very rapidly, one of them in the field of web applications that is growing rapidly because of internet technology. Web-based applications can be used as learning media. Learning media as a tool to improve the quality of education is very important in the learning process. In this research, Sekolah Luar Biasa Negeri 1 Palangka Raya, especially at the level of the Junior High School (SMPLB) was used as a reference in making learning media. Students at SMPLB are students with special needs. This learning media application is intended for students who deficient in the sense of hearing and speaking. This website-based learning media application was developed using the waterfall method with the stages of system analysis, such as the acquisition of data requirements, technology used in business processes and activity plans. Data Flow Diagrams (DFD) and Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) are also used in this application. Table design is used in this application, while navigation design uses a sitemap. Interface design and implementation are done with the PHP programming language. In the testing phase using black-box testing. This learning media is an additional teaching material where the visual side of the students can be used to directly see the learning object