Clinical supervisors' experience of giving feedback to students during clinical integrated learning

Exploring clinical learning experiences of novice physiotherapy students in a hospital setting

BACKGROUND

Exposure to clinical practice experiences ensures undergraduate physiotherapy students meet the clinical competencies required to graduate as autonomous practitioners. Much of the research literature has investigated the clinical experiences of medical students. While recent studies have explored physiotherapy students' experiences with simulation, few have explored their perspectives of a clinical placement in a hospital setting at the early learning stage of a four-year programme.

OBJECTIVE

To explore the perspectives of novice undergraduate physiotherapy students on a clinical placement in a real hospital setting.

METHODS

Fifteen Year 3 undergraduate physiotherapy students participated in semi-structured interviews midway through a three-week tertiary care clinical placement. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analyzed using thematic analysis.

RESULTS

Three main themes emerged: 1) student attributes affecting placement experience; 2) impact of the educator on student experience; and 3) effects of the clinical environment on student experiences.

CONCLUSION

The real clinical environment promotes a rich learning experience for students, while the clinical educator is pivotal to guiding student learning through provision of resources and feedback. Provision of early orientation and timely clarification of expectations is important to alleviate anxiety and allow students to prepare themselves.

Exploring internship nursing students' experiences regarding the effect of supervision model implementation on medication safety: A descriptive qualitative study

BACKGROUND

Medication safety is one of the main aspects of safe care in the nursing profession, which leads to increasing patient safety and preventing medication errors. Clinical supervision is an integral part of nursing education that leads to the professional and social development of nursing students. This study was designed with the aim of revealing the experiences of nursing internship students from the implementation of the clinical supervision model on medication safety.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

This descriptive qualitative study was done in 2022. The participants were selected from nursing internship students (Last year undergraduate) of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Participants in this study were 15 nursing internship students selected using a purposeful sampling method. Data were collected using in-depth semi-structured interviews. The qualitative content analysis approach was used for data analysis.

RESULTS

After analyzing the data, four categories, "promotion medication safety competence and knowledge," "development trust and respect climate," "outcome of feedback," and "role of clinical supervisor," and 10 subcategories were extracted from the participants' experiences.

CONCLUSION

The implementation of the clinical supervision model led to an increase in the competence of nursing internship students in medication safety. The students believed that this educational method made them follow the principles of medication safety administration. The feedback provided in the clinical supervision sessions made students think about their clinical activities, understand the reason for their mistakes, and use the reliable nursing resources introduced by the supervisor to improve their performance.