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Perception towards Clinical Experience among Nursing Students

Sandhra Sam
Vishal Naikare
Sneha Mankar

Journal of Nursing Today, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2017), pp. 16–21
e-ISSN 2456-1630

Abstract

Clinical placements provide students with the opportunity to experience nursing in the real world and enables students to put theory into practice. Besides that, clinical placement fosters students in the application of knowledge skills and attitudes to clinical field situations. Hence, it is vital that valuable clinical time should be utilized effectively and productively. As basic b.sc nursing being a wide branch student face problems like stress, depression as they may not understand procedure as well as assignment properly & student will be having difficulty in time management. Research Question: What i s the perception of second year Basic B. Sc. nursing students towards clinical experience? Objectives: To assess the perception towards clinical experience among 2nd year Basic B. Sc. Nursing Students . Research methodology: A quantitative non experimental descriptive exploratory method was adopted for the present study. Study was conducted on second year Basic B. Sc. nursing students of Sinhgad College of Nursing. The study samples were 36 second year Basic B. Sc. nursing students of Sinhgad College of Nursi ng. Non probability convenient sampling technique was used. In this study perception score divided in to 3 categories that is good 49 -64, average 33-48, poor 16-32 and findings showed that 56% have good perception towards clinical experience & 44 % have average perception.

Keywords: Perception, Clinical Experience, Nursing Students

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