Perception of final year nursing students towards the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) as a clinical learning environment
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Date
2007
Authors
Jamal, Juliana
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
The clinical nursing education is one of the important components of the nursing
program in preparing nurses for entry into the nursing profession. Many students
reported having problems during clinical learning. Stress, anxiety and initial clinical
experience are some of the problems. Therefore, attention should be given to
determine factors affecting student learning outcomes in the clinical environment.
There are many factors could influence students' perception toward clinical
environment such as physical of the clinical area and support from staff nurses.
Therefore, to get a clear view regarding this situation, the fourth year degree nursing
student from University Science Malaysia (USM) and the third year diploma nursing
students form Universiti Darul Nairn Malaysia (UDM) were examined by distributing
survey questionnaire. It is important to explore students' perceptions about problems
and conditions during clinical environment in HUSM. By understanding clinical
learning experiences are essential for developing more effective clinical nursing
education.
This study was done to explore perceptions among final year nursing students
toward Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) in providing clinical learning
environment. The design of this study was a cross-sectional survey using quantitative
approach. The sample population was from USM and UDM. Subjects of this study
were the fourth year nursing students (n=35) of University Sains Malaysia (USM) and
the third year diploma students (n=28) from University Darul lman Malaysia (UDM).
The potential number of student respondents from all institutions approximately n=63.
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nursing education