- Title
- Learning from clinical placement experience : Analysing nursing students' final reflections in a digital storytelling activity
- Creator
- Paliadelis, Penny; Wood, Pamela
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/102263
- Identifier
- vital:10773
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2016.06.005
- Identifier
- ISSN:14715953
- Abstract
- This paper reports on the learning potential of a reflective activity undertaken by final year nursing students, in which they were asked to recount two meaningful events that occurred during their clinical placements over the duration of their 3-year nursing degree program and reflect on how these events contributed to their learning to become beginning level Registered Nurses (RNs). This descriptive qualitative study gathered narratives from 92 students as individual postings in an online forum created within the University's learning management system. An analysis of the students' reflections are the focus of this paper particularly in relation to the value of reflecting on the identified events. Four themes emerged that clearly highlight the way in which these students interpreted and learned from both positive and negative clinical experiences, their strong desire to fit into their new role and their ability to re-imagine how they might respond to clinical events when they become Registered Nurses. The findings of this study may contribute to developing nursing curricula that better prepares final year students for the realities of practice. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd.
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone
- Relation
- Nurse Education in Practice Vol. 20, no. (2016), p. 39-44
- Rights
- Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Clinical placement; Digital storytelling; Nursing student; Reflection; Workplace experience
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