Empowering Nursing Students in Clinical Practice a Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Empowering Nursing Students in Clinical Practice a Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Dr. Lingaraj Chitra1, Dr. Deepa Ramaswamy2

Principal and Head Of the Department- Medical Surgical Nursing, PPG College of Nursing, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

ABSTRACT

                  Nurses in intensive care units (ICUs) and emergency departments, in particular, need to implement these skills properly as they are exposed to long lasting job stressors and the challenges of dealing with critically ill patients, heavy workloads, complications, unforeseen events, and shortage of time. Overcoming these challenges requires time management skills, conflict styles assessment and team work in clinical practice.

                 A cross-sectional survey design was adopted in this study. Purposive sampling was used in this study. A total of 223 nursing students participated in the study. Quantitative analysis was utilized for the data analyses. Majority 115 (52%) students belonged to the group of 18 years, and 108 (48%) students belonged to the age group of 19 years.. 66 (  30 %) males and  157 ( 70 %) females 66 (30%) students were males 157 (70%) students were females. Most of the students, 135(61%) had acceptable  skills in time management , minority of 46 (21%) students  had poor  in conflict style management and 55 ( 25%) students  need improvement  in team work management skills. The cross sectional study helped the nurse educators to identify the root causes of conflicts in time management and team work is the first step to resolve them. Team work and time management of nursing students as an effective way to overcome the obstacles in clinical education.