Clinical Instructors' Perspectives on the Assessment of Clinical Knowledge of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Descriptive Phenomenological Approach
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Article Title | Clinical Instructors' Perspectives on the Assessment of Clinical Knowledge of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Descriptive Phenomenological Approach |
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ERA Journal ID | 212680 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Chen, Li-Chin, Lin, Chun-Chih, Han, Chin-Yen and Huang, Ya-Ling |
Journal Title | Healthcare |
Journal Citation | 11 (13) |
Article Number | 1851 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2023 |
Publisher | MDPI AG |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
ISSN | 2227-9032 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11131851 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/13/1851 |
Abstract | This study aimed to determine clinical instructors’ perceptions of the assessments used to evaluate the clinical knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach. Purposive sampling was used to recruit sixteen clinical instructors for semi-structured interviews between August and December 2019. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed using a modified Colaizzi’s seven-step method. Four criteria were used to ensure the study’s validity: credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. Three themes were identified in the clinical instructors’ views on evaluating the clinical performance of student nurses: familiarity with students, patchwork clinical learning, and differing perceptions of the same scoring system. The study results suggest a need for a reliable, valid, and consistent approach to evaluating students’ clinical knowledge. If the use of patchwork clinical internships for student nurses is unavoidable, a method for assessing student nurses’ clinical performance that requires instructor consensus is necessary. |
Keywords | clinical instructor; undergraduate nursing students; clinical learning; descriptive phenomenological approach |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390110. Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy |
420599. Nursing not elsewhere classified | |
Byline Affiliations | New Taipei Municipal TuCheng Hospital, Taiwan |
Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
Southern Cross University | |
Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/z9v71/clinical-instructors-perspectives-on-the-assessment-of-clinical-knowledge-of-undergraduate-nursing-students-a-descriptive-phenomenological-approach
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