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
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Background: Clinical practice is the major component of the nursing profession. Studentnurses’ attitude towards clinical practice is one of the major factor for student nurses’ clinicallearning. 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 factorsamong 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 techniqueis used to get the sample of student nurses. Data was collected using self-administeredquestionnaire of English version. Pre-test was done on 5% nursing students of AAU. StatisticalPackage 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 wasused to test association, P< 0.05 was considered significant and 95 % confidence interval wasused.
Result: The Findings of this study indicated that 168(58%) respondents have favorable attitudetowards clinical practice and the mean attitude score was 14.99, median 15.00, and standarddeviation was 2.49. Majority of the respondents, 169(58.3%), came late to clinical practice. Theresults 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 shownto be enhancing factors for favorable attitude towards clinical practice; while inadequatepreparation for clinical practice [AOR= 0.41 (0.22-0.76)] was shown to be hindering factor offavorable 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 weresignificantly associated with favorable attitude towards clinical practice. Thus, measures shouldbe taken to help student nurses develop the prerequisite knowledge and skills for clinicalpractice, facilitate frequent and supportive supervision, and encourage appropriate professionalattitude and student nurse interaction with other medical staff
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Clinical practice Attitude