Nursing students’ perceptions of soft skills training in Ghana

Laari, Luke; Dube, Barbara M.

doi:10.4102/curationis.v40i1.1677

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“…Fifty-five per cent (55%) of students in a sample of 110 agreed that teaching soft skills in the classroom will help enhance their knowledge of patients and facilitate their ability to care well. This they believe will consequently enhance their nursing care 5 . Based on this the authors recommended the incorporation of soft skills into the nursing curriculum suggesting that this will improve caring standards in nursing 25 .…”

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“…According to Laari and Dube 5 , the quality of nursing care rendered is prominently reducing and the amount of time spent with patients listening to and explaining issues concerning their conditions is progressively fading. The therapeutic touch and the listening ear of the nurse are no longer accessible to the patient.…”

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“…This exposes the need to train future nurses in intrapersonal reorientation skills on how they handle their patients because soft skills are core to a nurse-patient relationship. Even though the debate on whether soft skills can be assessed takes a central position in many healthcare educations 2 , it is without a doubt that soft skills training would facilitate the bringing of a new epoch in nursing practice globally 5 . Soft skills can be mentioned as the aesthetics; the art of nursing, the innate creative facet that brings nursing into the lamplights as a caring noble profession 6 .…”

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Integrative review of soft skills the desirable traits and skills in nursing practise

Laari

Anim-Boamah

Boso

2021

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Aim: To explore the value of soft skills in nursing practice.Background: While hard skills refer to the technical ability and the factual knowledge needed to do a job, soft skills allow you to more effectively use your technical abilities and knowledge pleasingly. These two skills are complementary but soft skills are a prerequisite in every profession where human interaction and teamwork are needed to succeed. This integrative review examined the literature on soft skills within the nursing domain and made suggestions.Methods: An integrative literature review was carried using four electronic databases. These databases were Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, Medline on EBSCOhost and Google Scholar using keywords: soft skills, non-technical skills, nursing skills, nursing art and aesthetics. No dates were considered during the search of the literature. Full texts of relevant studies were retrieved after screening the titles and abstracts. Critical appraisal was undertaken, and the findings of the relevant studies were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Seventeen studies were included, and the findings suggest an urgent need for softs skills in the nursing domain. Five themes: denotation of soft skills in nursing; benefits of soft skills in nursing; need for soft skills in nursing; inculcating soft skills into nursing practice; and links between hard and soft skills emerged. Also, the findings show that soft skills are the cognitive and social capabilities that complete the technical skills of the nurse in the health care industry.Conclusions: Soft skills have become the oxygen needed to resuscitate the seemingly dying nursing care quality. Regulatory bodies should see the call to incorporate soft skills into the nursing curriculum as an urgent resuscitative call that needs attention.

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Integrative review of soft skills the desirable traits and skills in nursing practise

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Anim-Boamah

Boso

2021

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“…Perkembangan skill ini akan sangat tergantung dari jumlah pengalaman dalam bekerja. Hal ini sejalan dengan dengan penelitian Laari & Dube (2017) bahwa sebagian besar orang membutuhkan pelatihan soft-skills. Kegagalan dalam memperkuat methodological skill selama masa pendidikan akan berdampak kepada hambatan penampilan bekerja dan perkembangan karir selanjutnya.…”

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The Soft Skills of Millenial Generation Orientee Nurses

Bratajaya¹,

Ernawati²

2020

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Introduction: In doing their work, nurses often deal with other nurses, other health workers, patients, and patients' families. In addition, the job as a nurse in a hospital is related to the ability to be able to work together in teams. Therefore, a nurse is expected to have soft-skill attributes which, in this Millennial era, have different challenges from the previous era. Objective: The purpose of this study is to include soft-skills inherent in self-care nurses who have just connected the workforce from the point of view of senior nurses associated with them in the hospital. Method: Qualitative research involving 7 informants, namely senior nurses in the hospital, the informants were selected by purposive sampling based on inclusion criteria. Results: The results raised the theme of millennial nurses' soft-skills which are grouped into 3 groups of soft-skills, namely: (1) personal skills (personal skills), (2) social skills (social skills), (3) methodological skills (methodological skills), and the theme of soft-skill internalization. Discussion: Can reduce soft skills still need to be internalized for students since the time of education.

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“…In response to this demand, there is increasing literature arguing for preparing NGRN's according to the attributes of a registered nurse rather than skill preparation [17], and the importance of non-technical or "soft" skills and their impact on clinical performance [26]. According to Laker and Powell [27], "soft" skills are those relating to intrapersonal and interpersonal skills whereas hard skills are "the technical expertise and knowledge needed for a job" (p. 453) [28].…”

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Registered Nurses Perceptions of the Transferability of New Graduate Registered Nurses Skills across Healthcare Settings

Mackay¹,

Harding²

2019

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Aims and Objectives: This paper describes Registered Nurses' (RN's) perceptions of the transferability of New Graduate Registered Nurses (NGRN's) skills across settings: one aspect of a larger study exploring RN's perceptions of NGRN's work-readiness. Background: There is evidence RN's do not consider NGRN's as adequately prepared for practice. However, there does not appear to be consensus on what characterizes work-readiness. Methods: An adapted online questionnaire was sent to RNs in a range of clinical settings. They rated NGRNs' skills and the applicability of those skills to their clinical setting using a 5-point Likert scale. Results: Perceptions of transferability of skills across settings varied. In the skills grouping of routine assessment, basic clinical skills, advanced clinical skills the percentage rated as "not applicable" was over 40% in 75% of the skills. The low or zero non-applicable responses to communication skills indicate this skill group contains transferable skills regardless of the setting. The zero non-applicable responses for preparedness for practice for all but two skills indicate these groups contain transferable skills across settings. Conclusion: There appears to be some alignment between expectations from RNs and current NGRN preparation. The lack of transferability of more advanced technical skills raises questions about the role of education in preparing the NGRN versus that of industry-based graduate programmes. The increase in nursing roles and the increased emphasis on aged care and primary health care dictates that generalist preparation of NGRNs emphasising the attributes of an RN should be the focus rather competency in advanced technical skills.

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Nursing students’ perceptions of soft skills training in Ghana

Cited by 31 publications

References 15 publications

Integrative review of soft skills the desirable traits and skills in nursing practise

Integrative review of soft skills the desirable traits and skills in nursing practise

The Soft Skills of Millenial Generation Orientee Nurses

Registered Nurses Perceptions of the Transferability of New Graduate Registered Nurses Skills across Healthcare Settings

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