Effectiveness of a Different Approach in Clinical Practices

AbstractObjective: Clinical practices are essential for adaptation and assimilation of nursing students to nursing profession. The aim of this study is to determine present views of students, who have surgical nursing lesson, about clinical practices and evaluate effectiveness of education given about clinical practices. Materials and Methods: This is an intervention research, carried out between 24 February-24 May 2014 with 97 students, who had medical surgical nursing lesson and agreed to participate in the study, in Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir School of Health. The datas were collected with personal information form and clinical practice evaluation form (CPEF). CPEF is consisted of 41 items with yes, no, sometimes options. The highest score taken from the form is 82 and high score means positive views about clinical practices. Data collection forms were filled by students before and after 12-weekly education. Education was given by hospital care managers, nursing managers and teaching instructors. The datas were analyzed with IBM SPSS 21 statistical software package. One-way analysis of variance analyzes, Student's t test and Paired t test were used. Results: The age of study group was between 18-25 with mean of 20.05 ±1.08. 84 of students (86.6%) were female and 13 (13.4%) were male. Students’ CPEF pre-test scores were between 26.00-68.00 with mean of 48.08 ± 9.67. There was found no difference between age, gender, living places, family type and CPEF scores (p>0.05). It was found that students who chose nursing department willingly had higher scores (p