Challenges Experienced by Nursing Students Overcoming One Course Failure: A Phenomenological Research Study

The ubiquity of uncertainty: a scoping review on how undergraduate health professions’ students engage with uncertainty

“…All stages of undergraduate training are represented Finnerty & Pope 2005 ; Rowan et al 2008 ; Schéle et al 2011 ; Nevalainen et al 2012 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Hancock et al 2017 ; Friary et al 2018 ; Porteous and Machin 2018 ; Brondani & Donnelly 2020 ; Jowsey et al 2020 ; Kashbour et al 2019 Types of uncertainty Types of uncertainty can be categorised into: (i) uncertainty related to practice of healthcare itself; (ii) uncertainty related to the educational process; and (iii) uncertainty related to the self. The types of uncertainty that learners experienced, and their concerns around these, evolved as they progressed through their education Sobal & DeForge 1991 ; Biley & Smith 1999 ; Huijer et al 2000 ; Carr et al 2001 ; Warner et al 2001 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Martinez & Lo 2008 ; Maudsley et al 2008 ; Rowan et al 2008 ; Ganesh & Ganesh 2010 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 ; Krupat et al 2011 ; Leh 2011 ; Schéle et al 2011 ; Teunissen & Westerman 2011 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Nevalainen et al 2012 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Landeen et al 2013 ; Curtis 2014 ; Kristiansson et al 2014 ; Nixon et al 2014 ; Bassett et al 2015 ; Ion et al 2015 ; Stone et al 2015 ; Ali et al 2017 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ; Handwerker 2018 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Markey et al …”

“…The types of uncertainty that learners experienced, and their concerns around these, evolved as they progressed through their education Sobal & DeForge 1991 ; Biley & Smith 1999 ; Huijer et al 2000 ; Carr et al 2001 ; Warner et al 2001 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Martinez & Lo 2008 ; Maudsley et al 2008 ; Rowan et al 2008 ; Ganesh & Ganesh 2010 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 ; Krupat et al 2011 ; Leh 2011 ; Schéle et al 2011 ; Teunissen & Westerman 2011 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Nevalainen et al 2012 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Landeen et al 2013 ; Curtis 2014 ; Kristiansson et al 2014 ; Nixon et al 2014 ; Bassett et al 2015 ; Ion et al 2015 ; Stone et al 2015 ; Ali et al 2017 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ; Handwerker 2018 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Markey et al 2018 ; Matchim & Raetong 2018 ; McCarthy et al 2018 ; Porteous & Machin 2018 ; Vae et al 2018 ; Young-Brice et al 2018 ; Ingvarsson et al 2019 ; Kashbour et al 2019 ; Markey et al 2019 ; Mol et al 2019 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ; Brondani and Donnelly 2020 ; Gonzalo et al 2020 ; Koufidis et al 2020 ; Ramos-Morcillo et al 2020 Factors that influence learner experiences I...…”

“…Learners’ experiences of uncertainty, could be categorised as: (i) uncertainty related to the practice of healthcare itself (Ali et al 2017 ; Nixon et al 2014 ; Sobal and Deforge 1991 ; Carr et al 2001 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Ganesh and Ganesh 2010 ; Markey et al 2018 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ); (ii) uncertainty related to the educational process (Biley and Smith 1999 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ; Mc Carthy et al 2018 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Leh 2011 ; Stone et al 2015 ; Maudsley et al 2008 ; Gonzalo et al 2020 ); and (iii) uncertainty related to the learner’s self (Ganesh and Ganesh 2010 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Lingard et al 2003a ; Schéle et al 2011 ; Vae et al 2018 ; Young-Brice et al 2018 ; Handwerker 2018 ; Nevalainen et al 2010 , 2012 ; Huijer et al 2000 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ). Uncertainty emerged when learners experienced differences between themselves and others (Ion et al 2015 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Curtis 2014 ; Martinez and Lo 2008 ; Markey et al 2019 ), unfamiliar situations, or issues lacking easily distinguishable solutions (Ion et al 2015 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Lewinson et al 2018 ; Matchim and Raetong 2018 ; Warner et al 2001 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Bassett et al 2015 ).…”

“…Overall, the narrative around learners’ experience of uncertainty tended to be articulated in negative terms. Researchers described these experiences using words such as “discomfort”, “stress”, “anxiety”, and “vulnerability” (Handwerker 2018 ; Krupat et al 2011 ; Leh 2011 ; Porteous and Machin 2018 ; McCarthy et al 2018 ; Markey et al 2018 ; Toivonen et al 2017 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ; Ganesh and Ganesh 2010 ; Helmich et al 2018 ; Llapa Rodrigues et al 2016 ; Nevalainen et al 2012 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Steinauer et al 2018 ; Stone et al 2015 ; Weurlander et al 2019 ; Mol et al 2019 ; Groot et al 2020 ; Koufidis et al 2020 ). This was particularly evident for studies which described nursing students’ experiences in the clinical setting (Handwerker 2018 ; Porteous and Machin 2018 ; Llapa Rodrigues et al 2016 ; Mc Carthy et al 2018 ; Hazel et al 2013 ; Leh 2011 ; Markey et al 2018 ; Watkins et al 2011 ; Leh 2011 ; Dodgson et al 2018 ).…”

“You Want Me to Come to Your Office?!”: Student experiences of Moving from Failure to Success in a Nursing Course

“…Schneider and Preckel's (2017) systematic review also found that self-efficacy plays a key role in academic success in postsecondary education. Students with low self-efficacy tend to experience myriad challenges when they fail in comparison to their peers with high self-efficacy, who often attribute their failure to measurable reasons, such as not studying enough or working a lot (Handwerker, 2018).…”