The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of registered nurses with regard to facilitating the learning of student nurses during clinical placement. Focus group interviews with fifteen registered nurses were done, followed by participant observations in two clinical areas, to gain a clearer picture of obstacles, as well as the strategies employed during placement of student nurses in the clinical area. The :findings indicate that facilitation of the learning of student nurses during clinical placement is achieved by guidance, involvement, assisting and supervision of student nurses in the clinical area by nurses of all categories, and medical and paramedical personnel. Many obstacles were identified which obstruct the employment of strategies that are suitable for facilitation in the clinical area. Guidelines for the facilitation of learning of student nurses were recommended, to improve facilitation in the clinical area. / Health Studies / M.A. (Nursing Science)

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Bakgrund: Omhändertagande och omsorg ses vanligen som en uppgift förkvinnor, vilket gör att rollen som sjuksköterska kan vara svår att hantera för män.Andelen män i vården har under de senaste decennierna förblivit låg. Det finnsidag en påtaglig önskan att jämna ut könsskillnaderna inom sjuksköterskeyrket.Ett viktigt steg i att attrahera män till sjuksköterskeutbildningen är att skapatilltalande miljöer för den manliga sjuksköterskestudenten.Metod: Empirisk studie med kvalitativ ansats. Som datainsamling genomfördesintervjuer. Materialet analyserades med Graneheim & Lundmans kvalitativainnehållsanalys.Syfte: Att undersöka hur manliga sjuksköterskestudenter i ett kvinnodomineratyrke upplevde bemötandet från patienter och kollegor under sinverksamhetsförlagda utbildning (VFU).Resultat: Det framkom att manliga sjuksköterskestudenter generellt upplevdebemötandet positivt från såväl patienter som kollegor. Dock lever mångatraditionella uppfattningar av att män är läkare och kvinnor sjuksköterskor kvarhos huvudsakligen patienter som gör att manliga sjuksköterskestudentersomvårdnadskompetens kan bli i ifrågasatt.Konklusion: Studien indikerar på att det goda bemötandet som manligasjuksköterskestudenter upplever är på grund av att de är eftertraktade och män blirdärför en uppskattad minoritet. De kan dock ställas inför hinder vid intimaomvårdnadssituationer på grund av sitt manliga kön. / Background: Nursing care is usually seen as a task for women, which makes thenursing role difficult to manage for men. The proportion of men in healthcareover the past decades has remained low. Today, there is a desire to even out thegender disparities in the nursing profession.An important step in obtaining men into nursing education is to create attractiveenvironments for the male nursing student.Aim: To examine how male nursing students in a female-dominated professionexperienced treatment from patients and colleagues during clinical placement.Method: An empirical study with qualitative approach. Data was collected byinterviews. The material was analyzed with Graneheim & Lundman's qualitativecontent analysis.Results: It was found that male nursing students generally felt positive about thetreatment from both patients and colleagues. However, many traditional beliefsthat men are doctors and women are nurses remain mainly with patients, whichallow male nursing students to be questioned for their nursing skills.Conclusion: The study indicates that the good treatment which male studentnurses experience is because they are sought after and therefore becomes anappreciated minority. Although they can be put to difficulties during intimatecaring situations due to their male gender.

Submitted in fulfillment for the requirements of M Technology : Nursing, Department of Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015. / Background All nursing students need to undergo clinical training for them to be competent practitioners when they qualify. According to the South African Nursing Council (SANC) training facilities are accredited only if the clinical training component is effective. Therefore, it is important that students are accompanied in order for them to grow professionally and have values as future health care professionals. In nursing education, a student throughout the nursing training course receives instruction both theoretically and clinically in the subjects prescribed in the curriculum by the SANC. Clinical instruction is effected through clinical teaching and learning, which is a requirement by the nursing regulatory body, the SANC. For an undergraduate programme a student has to spend a minimum of 1000 hours per year in clinical placement to meet programme outcomes. It is the responsibility of all nursing schools, colleges and universities to ensure that each student meets these requirements. For this to be effective it has to be facilitated by lecturers and clinical instructors, through teaching and learning strategies to enable students to perform the clinical skill with knowledge and eventual competence. Therefore, clinical instructors are there to ensure that the students are competent in all skills, such as cognitive, affective as well as psychomotor skills. This will be beneficial to the programme in reduction of rates of failure and dropout and again by producing competent practitioners. A positive relationship and collaboration between the clinical training institutions and clinical placement facilities is vital for student achievement, especially because the clinical instructors assist students in correlating theory and practice. This study sought to assess the clinical training component of an undergraduate programme at this UoT in KwaZulu Natal. Findings may inform an improved clinical instruction programme as no such study had been undertaken. Methods A qualitative and quantitative design was used to explore feelings, perceptions as well as experiences of staff and student nurses with regard to clinical training component. Stratified random sampling was used to select student nurses according to levels of training and questionnaires were used to collect data. All permanently employed staff who had been working over six months were selected since they were directly or indirectly involved in the clinical facilitation. A focus group interview was conducted for the clinical instructors and questionnaires were used for the lecturers to collect data. Themes and sub-themes emerged and on analysis they were compared to the findings from the quantitative survey. Results and discussion The results revealed that collaboration of clinical placement facilities and training institutions is important for student’s support since all parties are able to communicate freely and students benefit. Students stated that they did not get enough support since the clinical facilitators were short staffed and they were also allocated to facilities that were far from the campus. The respondents cited problems during clinical accompaniments as there were very high expectations by staff members in the placement areas regarding student support. Lecturers were also expected to involve themselves in clinical accompaniment to bridge theory-practice gap. The employment of mentors will assist in student support as the mentors will be at placement areas and the staff and students easily contact them. Conclusion From the interviews the researcher managed to come up with important aspects that should be included in an accompaniment tool when developed, which should be user friendly to both lecturers and clinical facilitators. It will thus assist students with critical skills including critical thinking when performing any patient related nursing skill. It was recommended that the UoT management support staff by attending to their concerns including finding more clinical placement facilities close to the campus.

MCur / Department of Advanced Nursing Science / Nursing students’ absenteeism has become a very serious concern in every higher educational institution in the whole world especially those of nursing. This study was conducted to investigate factors leading to student nurses’ absenteeism in Limpopo College of Nursing during Psychiatric Nursing Science clinical placement. A quantitative approach using descriptive design was used. Purposive sampling method was used to get a sample of two hundred and six (206) of students who have absented themselves before. Data was collected through a self-report scale in the form of questionnaires of structured questions, entered and analysed using SPSS version 24. Ethical considerations were adhered to throughout. The correlation between clinical factors and absenteeism was determined. The main reported factors for absenteeism were: student nurses being treated as a workforce in the clinical areas; shortage of staff in the clinical areas; study for tests and examinations; inadequate supervision of student nurses by professional nurses; and being inconsiderate of student nurses request for days off in the clinical area. This study recommends that the college should make a provision of one week of study for student nurses between the period of clinical placement and tests or final examinations as most of the respondents indicated that they absent themselves due to study for tests and examinations. The Department of Health should find a way of not overworking students due to shortage of staff in the wards but consider them for experiential learning. A research study should be conducted to develop a model to reduce student nurses absenteeism. / NRF