Development of collaboration guidelines for nursing education and related healthcare services

Health SA Gesondheid

 
 
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Title Development of collaboration guidelines for nursing education and related healthcare services
 
Creator Bester, Estelle van Wyk, Neltjie C. Maree, Carin
 
Subject Nursing education; theory/practice integration nursing education institution; associated healthcare services; clinical facilitators; theoretical lecturers; theory and practice integration.
Description Background: A theory-practice gap in nursing education often occurs, and the staff from the nursing education institution and the associated healthcare services should find ways to improve their collaboration to reduce the gap during the training of nursing students.Aim: This study aimed to develop context-specific collaboration guidelines for a nursing education institution and associated healthcare services.Setting: Private hospital in the Gauteng province of South Africa.Methods: Guidelines were developed from the findings of an integrative literature review. Thereafter, it was contextualised in a qualitative study with focus group discussions (FGDs) involving 9 theoretical lecturers and 10 clinical facilitators.Results: In the partnership between the nursing education institution and the associated healthcare services, bilateral communication, cooperation between the theoretical lecturers and the clinical facilitators in delivering evidence-based patient care, intensified innovation in teaching and learning practices and an environment conducive to theory-practice integration should be emphasised.Conclusion: A set of context-specific guidelines was developed to enable the theoretical lecturers and the clinical facilitators to collaborate in supporting nursing students to apply their theoretical knowledge in the development of clinical competencies.Contribution: The guidelines can be adjusted to suit the context of other nursing education institutions and their associated healthcare services to improve collaboration between theoretical lecturers and clinical facilitators to the benefit students’ skills development in theory-practice integration.
 
Publisher AOSIS Publishing
 
Contributor No funding received
Date 2024-02-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/hsag.v29i0.2496
 
Source Health SA Gesondheid; Vol 29 (2024); 10 pages 2071-9736 1025-9848
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Gauteng, South Africa 2020-2023 female, clinical facilitators and theoretical lecturers
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Estelle Bester, Neltjie C. van Wyk, Carin Maree https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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