Student Nurses’ Attitude Towards Clinical Practice and Associated Factors in Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia, 2015.
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Background: Clinical practice is the major component of the nursing profession. Student
nurses’ attitude towards clinical practice is one of the major factor for student nurses’ clinical
learning. Favorable attitude towards clinical practice promotes effective clinical learning,
whereas unfavorable attitude hiders the acquisition of necessary practical skills. Student nurses’
attitude towards clinical practice is affected by a number of internal and external factors.
However, researches with this regard were meager in Ethiopia.
Objective: To assess student nurses’ attitude towards clinical practice and associated factors
among Hawassa university students, Hawassa, Ethiopia.
Methodology: Institution based cross sectional study design was employed from April 10th –
25th, 2015. A total of 290 respondents participated in the study. Multistage sampling technique
is used to get the sample of student nurses. Data was collected using self-administered
questionnaire of English version. Pre-test was done on 5% nursing students of AAU. Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version-20 was used was used for data entry and analysis.
Descriptive statistics and Logistic regression was used to analyze the data, and Odds Ratio was
used to test association, P< 0.05 was considered significant and 95 % confidence interval was
used.
Result: The Findings of this study indicated that 168(58%) respondents have favorable attitude
towards clinical practice and the mean attitude score was 14.99, median 15.00, and standard
deviation was 2.49. Majority of the respondents, 169(58.3%), came late to clinical practice. The
results of this study also indicated that readiness to interact with other medical staff [AOR= 2.43
(1.072-5.50)], and confidence towards nursing profession [AOR=5.69(2.49-13.01)] were shown
to be enhancing factors for favorable attitude towards clinical practice; while inadequate
preparation for clinical practice [AOR= 0.41 (0.22-0.76)] was shown to be hindering factor of
favorable attitude towards clinical practice.
Conclusion and recommendation: Late coming, readiness to interact with other medical staff,
confidence towards nursing profession and inadequate preparation for clinical practice were
significantly associated with favorable attitude towards clinical practice. Thus, measures should
be taken to help student nurses develop the prerequisite knowledge and skills for clinical
practice, facilitate frequent and supportive supervision, and encourage appropriate professional
attitude and student nurse interaction with other medical staff
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Clinical practice, Attitude