Skill Building in Nursing Students during Pre-service Training

Abstract

The important aspect of nursing education is to impart clinical skills to student nurses to ensure patient safety. It is a challenge for the nursing educators/teachers to develop innovative methods for teaching clinical skills to student nurses in order to ensure competency at the bedside. Clinical environment remains an important aspect in the development of students' competence, confidence and contentment of their expected learning outcomes.The major challenge in nursing education is to equip the students in performing the procedures skilfully with confidence. Healthcare is always changing, hence nursing teachers have a great role to update themselves with the current nursing practices and impart the same in a comprehensive manner to the students. In order to effectively teach student nurses, teachers must have command over the current clinical facets and must master their teaching methodology. There are various ways to develop skills, out of which demonstration and return demonstration holds a key place.