Best practice in clinical facilitation of undergraduate nursing students

Adaptation and validation of the clinical supervision self-assessment tool among registered nurses

“…This is not a surprising considering effective clinical supervision requires knowledge of the expectations of the education providers, curricula, and student's scope of practice (Price, 2012) and not merely experience in the clinical arena. This is consistent with other studies that identified the need for appropriate strategies to ensure quality clinical experiences for undergraduate nursing students (Needham et al, 2016).…”

“…However, when compared to those who had a post-graduate qualification related to clinical supervision and those who had no training, nurses who had completed a hospital based in-service program had higher mCSAT-Skill scores. These results are congruent with previous studies where training has been identified as important for effective clinical supervision (Needham et al, 2016). In this study a significant proportion of the nurses (n = 97, 42.4%) had not completed any formal clinical supervision training highlighting the need for efforts to be placed on ongoing training and developing resources to support nurses who supervise nursing students.…”

The effect of preparation strategies, qualification and professional background on clinical nurse educator confidence

“…Preparation and support can be formal or informal, institutional and/or individually personalized and may include orientation programmes, mentoring, guidelines, educational courses, conferences, seminars and peer support. Research in this area has been conducted in various settings using a range of research methodologies (Needham, McMurray, & Shaban, 2016;Suplee, Gardner, & Jerome-D'Emilia, 2014). In each of these studies participants have reported insufficient preparation.…”

Clinical Ability, Learning-Attitudes, and Self-Confidence among Nursing Students in Their First High-Fidelity Simulation Training

“…Clinical practice is the preparatory process for nursing students who will need to demonstrate their ability in multidimensional nursing care, including in complex social contexts. Through clinical practice, nursing students acquire the knowledge and skills to deal with the complexity, uncertainty, and conflicts encountered in clinical practice, to develop the ability to problem-solve clinical situations independently, and to acquire comprehensive knowledge about nursing [3,4].…”