Abstract
Student engagement in a clinical learning environment is a vital component in the curricula of pre-licensure nursing students, providing an opportunity to combine cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills. This paper is significant in Arab world as there is a lack of knowledge, attitude and practice of student involvement in the new clinical learning environment. The purpose of this review article is to describe the experiences and perspectives of the nurse educator in facilitating pre-licensure nursing students’ engagement in the new clinical learning environment. The review suggests that novice students prefer actual engagement in clinical learning facilitated through diversity experiences, shared learning opportunities, student-faculty interaction and active learning. They expressed continuous supervision, ongoing feedback, interpersonal relationship and personal support from nurse educators useful in the clinical practice. However, the value of this review lies in a better understanding of what constitutes quality clinical learning environment from the students’ perspective of engagement in evidence-based nursing, reflective practice, e-learning and simulated case scenarios facilitated by the nurse educators. This review is valuable in planning and implementing innovative clinical and educational experiences for improving the quality of the clinical teaching-learning environment.
Highlights
The quality of nursing education depends largely on the quality of the clinical experience planned in the nursing curriculum
AIM The aim of this paper is to explore nursing student’s engagement in the new clinical learning environment through diversity experiences, shared learning opportunities, student-faculty interaction and active learning contributing to effective learning
Maximizing student engagement is critical to achieving clinical learning outcomes considered central to the clinical curriculum in the undergraduate nursing education
Summary
The quality of nursing education depends largely on the quality of the clinical experience planned in the nursing curriculum. Students enrolled in the BSN program at the CON enter clinical practice in the Adult Health Nursing clinical course. They enter various clinical settings in the hospital and are exposed to various socio-cultural, racial-ethnic and psychosocial aspects of patients. It is a challenge for many student nurses to imbibe the various roles of the nurses in the clinical setting while learning new clinical concepts and application of these in nursing practice. Clinical learning becomes a stressful event for students exposed to the new clinical environment
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