Nursing Students Achieving Community Health Competencies through Undergraduate Clinical Experiences: A Gap Analysis.
Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh
; 12: 143-54, 2015 Oct 13.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26461843
ABSTRACT
In Canada, it is widely believed that nursing practice and health care will move from acute care into the community. At the same time, increasing numbers of nursing students are engaged in non-traditional clinical experiences for their community health rotation. These clinical experiences occur at agencies not organizationally affiliated with the health care system and typically do not employ registered nurses (RNs). What has yet to be established is the degree to which nursing students are actually being prepared for community health nursing roles through their community health clinical rotations. In this paper we report the findings of a mixed method study that explored the gap between desired and observed levels of competence in community health of senior nursing students and new graduates. The gap was quantified and then the nature of the gap further explored through focus groups.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Clinical Competence
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Community Health Nursing
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Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
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Nurses
Type of study:
Qualitative_research
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Int J Nurs Educ Scholarsh
Journal subject:
EDUCACAO
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ENFERMAGEM
Year:
2015
Document type:
Article