Lived Experience of Clinical Nursing Instructors' Role in Clinical Practicum
10.5977/jkasne.2019.25.4.484
- Author:
Sarah LIM
1
;
Soomin HONG
;
Sanghee KIM
;
Sookyung KIM
;
Yielin KIM
Author Information
1. Staff Nurse, Severance Hospital·Doctoral Student, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Qualitative research;
Education;
Nursing
- MeSH:
Education;
Education, Nursing;
Humans;
Mentors;
Nursing;
Preceptorship;
Qualitative Research
- From:Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
2019;25(4):484-495
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore the role of clinical nursing instructors' lived experience in clinical practicum.METHODS: Data were collected from 11 clinical nursing instructors by in-depth interviews. The data were analyzed using content analysis of Downe-Wamboldt (1992).RESULTS: Four themes and twelve subthemes were extracted. 1) Recognizing and conducting the roles of clinical nursing instructor: ‘Helping and providing support for successful clinical practicum’, ‘Coordinating clinical activities in daily practice’, ‘Providing mentoring as an elder in life’; 2) Participating in improving integrative nursing competency: ‘Helping to improve cognitive competency’, ‘Helping to improve functional competency’, ‘Contributing to form desirable professionalism’, ‘Helping to deliberate the nature of nursing’; 3) Experiencing difficulties in performing the role of clinical nursing instructor: ‘Facing with difficulty from institutional limits’, ‘Recognizing difficulty from lack of personal knowledge and experience’; 4) Experiencing value of clinical nursing instructor and accomplishing personal growth: ‘Making efforts to widen personal knowledge and experience’, ‘Developing one's own educational competency’, ‘Making a chance to reflect oneself’.CONCLUSION: Despite the distinctive features of clinical nursing instructors, little is known of the characteristics. The results of this study could be used as a reference to improve the quality of clinical nursing education.
