Clinical Practice for Novice Nursing Students: Shorter Clinical Day or Longer Clinical Day?

https://gexinonline.com/archive/journal-of-comprehensive-nursing-research-and-care/JCNRC-141

Journal of Comprehensive Nursing Research and Care Volume 3 (2018), Article ID: JCNRC-141

https://doi.org/10.33790/jcnrc1100141

Research Article

Clinical Practice for Novice Nursing Students: Shorter Clinical Day or Longer Clinical Day?

Kobayashi Akiko^*

Department of Nursing, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, California 90639, USA

Corresponding Author Details: Kobayashi Akiko, Department of Nursing, Biola University, 13800 Biola Avenue, La Mirada, California 90639, USA. E-mail: akiko.kobayashi@biola.edu

Received date: 30^th March, 2019
Accepted date: 04^th June, 2019
Published date: 12^th June, 2019

Citation: Kobayashi A, Bacon P (2019) Clinical Practice for Novice Nursing Students: Shorter Clinical Day or Longer Clinical Day ?. J Comp Nurs Res Care 4: 141.

Copyright: ©2019, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

Abstract

Background: Clinical education is an essential component of nursing curricula. The number of studies on novice nursing students’(NSs) exposure and acquisition of nursing skills is limited. The present study primarily aimed to compare the frequency of skills performance of NSs assigned to short and long clinical days for the first clinical rotation. This study is unique, as NSs had a mixed experience of short and long clinical days within one semester.
Methods: 40 first-clinical semester NSs were randomly divided into four clinical groups. The study compared the mean number of skills performed by NSs s in a 5.5-hour clinical day versus an 8-hour day. NSs were then asked to describe perceived benefits of shorter and longer clinical days at the end of the semester.