Teaching Basic Nursing Care: Nurse Preceptors’ Perceptions about Changing the Teaching Context from the Clinical Setting to a School Simulation Lab

Abstract

Research demonstrates that basic nursing care receives less attention in clinical settings and has become visually less prominent in nursing education curriculums. While much is known about the importance of preceptorship in clinical settings, little is known about how preceptors teach basic nursing care to students in a school simulation lab. This study explores the preceptors’ perceptions of teaching basic nursing care to nursing students in the school simulation lab compared to clinical settings. Data were collected through focus group interviews and participant observation and analyzed by using qualitative content analysis. Three main categories emerged: (i) Perceived advantages and disadvantages, (ii) Positive attitudes – remembering being a student, and (iii) Knowing what to do and showing how to do it. Awareness of the importance of having knowledge about basic nursing care may contribute to counterbalancing the devaluation of basic nursing care among nursing students.

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“…Moreover, the results from a pilot study conducted by Alderman et al () offered a practical and feasible way to explicitly embed the fundamentals of care into nursing curricula. Recently, a qualitative study conducted by Lillekroken (, ) focused on clinical nurses' teaching and students' learning the fundamentals of care within a simulated learning environment, revealing how the fundamentals of care are taught and learned. The findings demonstrated that nurses from clinical settings are capable and competently teaching fundamental care in a simulated learning environment.…”

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“…A importância das experiências do preceptor enquanto estudante é valorizada por Lillekroken 20 , quando refere que uma recordação positiva se reflete na forma de ensino adotada. Tabari-Khomeiran et al 7 referem que a experiência oferece uma oportunidade para fazer a ligação entre teoria e prática.…”

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