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Evaluation of Clinical Training of Student Nurses at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital

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dc.contributor.author Eyeson, Evelyn Baawa
dc.date.accessioned 2023-11-24T13:08:47Z
dc.date.available 2023-11-24T13:08:47Z
dc.date.issued 2017-02
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10300
dc.description ii, ill:121 en_US
dc.description.abstract Clinical learning is a vital component in the curricula of nursing education, providing an opportunity to student nurses to combine cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills. Evaluation is a basic part of clinical education. There are a number of problems and challenges associated with evaluation of clinical training of student nurses. Some of these concerns are subjectivity and variability in the use of effective clinical evaluation tools to evaluate the psychomotor, affective and cognitive learning domains. These invariably safeguards patients from unsafe practice. The purpose of the study is to explore the views and experiences of preceptors and clinical instructors regarding evaluation of student nurses’ clinical training. The study utilized a descriptive case study methodology and was conducted at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Ten preceptors and five clinical instructors participated in the study. The data was collected, using face-to-face interviews of fifteen participants each. The data was analyzed using thematic content analysis approach. Several themes emerged from the data analysis. Examples of these include problems with the evaluation process, subjectivity of evaluation tool, increased number of students, training needs and inappropriate clinical placement. It is recommended that preceptors and clinical instructors need to be professionally trained to fit for their demanding role. Again, the training should be ongoing to support and improve the quality of students’ evaluation. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject Nurses en_US
dc.subject Clinical Training en_US
dc.subject Hospital en_US
dc.title Evaluation of Clinical Training of Student Nurses at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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