Determining student satisfaction in a nursing college

Nursing students' satisfaction with the curriculum: An integrative review

BACKGROUND

Student satisfaction is one indicator of quality in higher education, allowing access to funding and coming with repercussions on student performance. This theme is considered complex and highly studied; however, in the nursing literature, there are no studies that summarize and combine the variables and predictors of satisfaction, as well as the existing conceptual models.

PURPOSE

The purpose of this study is to define the following: 1) nursing students' academic satisfaction, 2) the existing theoretical models, 3) the academic satisfaction trend during the course, 4) the differences in academic satisfaction level between nursing student characteristics, and 5) the variables involved in the satisfaction process.

METHODS

An integrative review using Whittemore and Knafl's (2005) methodologies was conducted. The electronic databases CINAHL, PubMed, Cochrane, and Scopus were used. Two reviewers independently conducted the quality appraisal of the selected studies using the checklist proposed by Edwards (2015) and the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) tool.

FINDINGS

Nineteen papers were included. The articles were published between 1990 and 2018.

CONCLUSIONS

The review highlights the lack of a shared conceptual framework to guide the empirical research in the nursing degree field. Four dimensions that predict satisfaction with the curriculum have been identified: faculty, curriculum, social, and development.

Translation and First Pilot Validation Study of the "Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale" Questionnaire to the Spanish Context

Satisfaction helps nursing students to develop skills and improve their academic performance, hence the importance of assessing it by means of a reliable instrument. The objective was to translate and culturally adapt the "Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale" (UNSASS) instrument to the Spanish context. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a representative sample of 354 fourth-year nursing students from University of Seville, Seville, Spain. The validation process was carried out in five phases as follows: direct translation, synthesis of the translations, back translation, consolidation by a panel of experts, and pilot test with nursing students. After two rounds among two expert committees, the Content Validity Index (CVI) varied from 0.85 to 1, obtaining a CVI above 0.8 with the global questionnaire. A scale composed of 48 items and 4 subscales was obtained, resulting in a Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.96. Within the subscales, this coefficient varied between 0.92 and 0.94. No statistically significant differences were found between the total satisfaction of the scale and gender and teaching unit. An inversely proportional relationship was found between the age and the "Support & Resources" scale. The "Escala de Satisfacción Académica del Estudiante de Enfermería" (ESAEE) scale was obtained, translated, and adapted to the Spanish context from the UNSASS scale, with satisfactory consistency and validity.

Evaluation of Bachelor's Degree Nursing Program Assessment by Nurses Working at A University Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study from Turkey

The aim of this study was to examine the evaluation of integrated program, traditional and problem based programs in nursing by nurses working in a university hospital. The population of the study consisted of the 288 nurses. In the collection of research data, use was made of a Nurses' Description Form and the Bachelor's Degree Nursing Program Assessment Scale (BNPAS). It was found that the total mean BNPAS scores of nurses graduating from the integrated educational program were higher than those of nurses graduating from traditional and problem-based learning educational programs (p < 0.05). The total mean BNPAS scores of nurses who followed professional scientific publications after graduation were higher than the scores of those who did not, and the difference was found to be significant (p < 0.05). It was concluded that nurses had positive assessment of the bachelor's degree programs from which they graduated.

La complejidad del cuidado y el cuidado de la complejidad: un tránsito pedagógico de los reduccionismos fragmentantes a las lógicas no líneales de la complejidad

Este trabajo aborda la formación inicial en enfermería y su práctica profesional utilizando para ello instrumentos conceptuales pertenecientes a lo "paradigma de la complejidad": esquemas teóricos dinámicos, categorías conceptuales ambivalentes utilizados para dar cuenta de las incertidumbres, indeterminaciones y fenómenos aleatorios que conforman los procesos que tienen lugar en la formación inicial de Enfermería y en su ejercicio profesional. Categorías que tratan de ir más allá del reduccionismo positivista que había pretendido eliminar la imprecisión, la ambigüedad y la contradicción, y se sitúan en una perspectiva en la que la paradoja, la dualidad, la incertidumbre o la contradicción que, antes que errores o límites de nuestro pensamiento, son características constitutivas de la realidad del cuidado y de la los procesos formativos que capacitan para su ejercicio profesional. La tesis central de estos planteamientos afirma que las formas de representación positivista han asignado a los fenómenos del cuidado profesional de la salud y a los de su enseñanza una certidumbre de la que realmente carecen.