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DhendeTejashree Ramesh
Vishal R. Naikare
Sneha Mankar
Nursing students have a golden opportunity to understand the nursing world through their experience and theoretical knowledge. Nursing students have a very good knowledge and skills as their work is dealing with the real life of humans. Clinical assignments in nursing education provide opportunities for students to develop thinking skills vital to the effective delivery of patient care. 1 Student motivation to complete homework assignments is influenced by a collection of beliefs, attitudes, and emotions. These include students’ experiences that lead to success or failure, their personal expectations and standards for performance, and confi dence in their ability to do well. 2 This knowledge and skill gained by them is evaluated through assignments. Assignments a way to assess knowledge and skills of students. Hence, it is very important to understand weak point and strong point of a student . As P.B.B.Sc nursing students they completed their General nursing midwifery examination and also they have good knowledge about clinical experience. So, while during this first year P. B. Bsc nursing again they have to complete their clinical assignment and theoretical assignment which will be help them to understand their weak point and strong points. Research question: What perception do 2 nd year P.B. B.Sc. nursing students have regarding assignments? Objectives: To assess the perception of assignment of nursing students. A quantitative non experimental descriptive exploratory method was adopted for the present study. Study was conducted on first year Post basic BSc nursing students of Sinhgad College of nursing. The study sample size was 40 first year Pos t Basic B. Sc. nursing students of Sinhgad College of nursing. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used. In this study perception score was divided into three categories that is good 38 -50, average 24 -37, poor 10 -23 and findings showed that 9 5% have good perception towards clinical experience & 5% have average perception.
Keywords: Perception, Assignment, first year P.B.B.Sc. Nursing students