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Professional nurses as reflective clinical learning facilitators.

|May 1, 1999

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Professional nurses are key reflective clinical learning facilitators. Their perceptions highlight communication, role-modeling, and up-to-date knowledge as crucial for effective nursing education and quality patient care.

Area of Science:

Nursing Education
Healthcare Professional Development

Background:

Rapid changes in healthcare necessitate re-evaluating the role of nurses in clinical education.
Adapting nursing education is vital for meeting community health needs and ensuring evidence-based care.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore and describe professional nurses' perceptions of their role as reflective clinical learning facilitators.
Focus on clinical learning units within a specific healthcare service in Gauteng.

Main Methods:

Phenomenological method utilizing descriptive naïve sketches.
Data collected from twenty professional nurses meeting inclusion criteria.
Content analysis to identify key concepts.

Main Results:

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Eight main concepts identified and prioritized: communication/collaboration, role-modelling, continuous assessment/evaluation, up-to-date knowledge, scientific approach, clinical teaching, management, and professionalism.
These concepts were confirmed through literature control.

Conclusions:

Professional nurses perceive multifaceted roles in clinical learning facilitation.
A model for reflective thinking in nursing education should be developed based on these identified concepts.