Student and preceptor perceptions of primary health care clinical placements during pre-service education: Qualitative results from a quasi-experimental study

Phafoli, Semakaleng; Christensen-Majid, Alice; Skolnik, Laura; Reinhardt, Stephanie; Nyangu, Isabel; Whalen, Madeleine; Stender, Stacie C.

doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2017.10.012

Cited by 11 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As PHC continues to grow, attention has been given to developing workforce strategies that will ensure sufficient nurses with the right skills are available into the future. This has included enhancing the PHC content in the undergraduate nursing curricula (Ali et al 2011;Keleher et al 2010)(Authors own), and offering clinical placements in PHC for pre-registration nurses to experience working in the sector (Bloomfield et al 2018;McInnes et al 2015aMcInnes et al , 2015bPhafoli et al (2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences of registered nurses in a general practice-based new graduate program: a qualitative study

McInnes

Halcomb

Huckel

et al. 2019

Aust. J. Prim. Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nurses are increasingly needed in primary healthcare settings to support community-based healthcare delivery. Programs to facilitate transition of new graduate nurses are well established in acute care; however, there are few similar programs reported in settings like general practice. This paper sought to explore the experiences of new graduate registered nurses and their registered nurse mentors in a new graduate program within Australian general practice. New graduates (n = 9) and their mentors participated in interviews before, during and at the conclusion of a 12-month new graduate program. Interviews were digitally audio-recorded and professionally transcribed verbatim before being analysed using thematic analysis. Eighteen new graduate and 10 mentor interviews were conducted, revealing four themes. Preparation and Opportunities describes the influence that pre-registration education had on preparing nurses for general practice employment. Exceeding Expectations highlights the positive experiences within the program. Program Challenges draws attention to the difficulties experienced by participants, and Future Career Intentions explores future career plans. This study highlights that a general practice new graduate nurse program has the potential to build the workforce. However, strengthening undergraduate preparation of nurses around primary health care and addressing funding issues in general practice, are important to promote the success of such programs.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiences of registered nurses in a general practice-based new graduate program: a qualitative study

McInnes

Halcomb

Huckel

et al. 2019

Aust. J. Prim. Health

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Research conducted by Phafoli et al (2018) and Mackey et al (2018) also confirmed these findings, namely that placement in a PHC setting contributes to reaching nursing students' educational goals.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 59%

“…They attain a better understanding of the issues faced by patients and become more tolerant in accepting patient behaviour (Enestvedt et al 2018). Similarly, Phafoli et al (2018) found that being placed in a PHC setting enabled nursing students to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural issues that impact the provision of PHC.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Clinical practice placement at PHC clinics requires nursing students to be resilient to be able to grow and cope (Lopez et al 2018 ). On the one hand, PHC clinics as clinical learning environments offer valuable opportunities for nursing students to apply theoretical knowledge and to develop into competent, independent, professional nurses (Mackey et al 2018 ; Phafoli et al 2018 ). On the other hand, nursing students may experience challenges that require them to be resilient, such as lack of resources and lack of support (Thomas & Asselin 2018 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Experiences of nursing students regarding clinical placement and support in primary healthcare clinics: Strengthening resilience

Zulu¹,

Plessis

Koen

2021

Health SA Gesondheid

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…It was estimated that 3272 nursing and midwifery trained professionals were required to meet the country’s health needs (Ministry of Health and Social Welfare 2011 :9). It is thus acknowledged that nurses and midwives are crucial for reducing MMRs because they are the majority healthcare professionals group in Lesotho (Phafoli et al 2018 :225). Hence, upscaling strategies for nursing and midwifery focused on increasing the numbers and implementing curricula reforms to address the gaps identified in the nurse training programmes in Lesotho (Botma 2014 :26; Stender et al 2014 :3).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Student midwives’ knowledge, skills and competency in relation to the active management of the third stage of labour: A correlational study

Muzeya

Julie

2020

Curationis

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: Lesotho has been experiencing health challenges as indicated by its high maternal mortality ratio of 620 per 100 000 live births for the year 2010, which has been linked to its limited human resources.Objectives: The knowledge and skills of final-year student nurse-midwives related to the active management of the third stage of labour were determined.Method: A quantitative, descriptive survey design was used to conduct this study with 99 final-year midwifery students at four nursing schools in Lesotho using stratified sampling. The structured questionnaire collected data on the knowledge and self-reported competency. Subsequently, the controlled cord traction marks, extracted from the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), were compared to the self-reported competency of these midwifery students using R software version 3.4.0.Results: The mean score for knowledge and the OSCE was 73.8% (n = 99) and 77.2% (n = 99), respectively. The majority of respondents (95.2%, n = 99) rated themselves highly in terms of the active management of the third stage of labour competency. There was no correlation between the self-reported competency and knowledge (r = 0.08, p = 0.4402), and self-reported competency and OSCE scores (r = −0.004, p = 0.01).Conclusion: The high mean scores for the knowledge and the OSCE indicate that the theoretical component of the curriculum on the active management of the third stage of labour was effective in equipping final-year midwifery students with knowledge and skills to carry out this competency.

show abstract

Student and preceptor perceptions of primary health care clinical placements during pre-service education: Qualitative results from a quasi-experimental study

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Experiences of registered nurses in a general practice-based new graduate program: a qualitative study

Experiences of registered nurses in a general practice-based new graduate program: a qualitative study

Experiences of nursing students regarding clinical placement and support in primary healthcare clinics: Strengthening resilience

Student midwives’ knowledge, skills and competency in relation to the active management of the third stage of labour: A correlational study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About