Research Output
“I know exactly what I'm going into”: recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland.
  Aim
To develop a model of pre-nursing experience from evaluation of a pre-nursing
scholarship for school pupils in Scotland.
Design
Action research study.
Methods
School pupils (n = 42) completed questionnaire surveys and participated in
anecdote circles. Student nurses acting as pupil ‘buddies’ (n = 33) participated
in focus groups. Descriptive quantitative data and thematic analyses of qualitative
data were integrated across cohorts and campuses.
Results
Ten recommended components of a model of pre-nursing experience were
identified: educational experience of: (1) face-to-face on-campus teaching; (2)
hands-on clinical skills sessions; and (3) andragogy, practice exposure to (4)
nursing language; (5) nurses’ emotional labour; (6) patients’ stories; (7) pupils
socializing with buddies; (8) buddies planning placement activities; and (9) supporting
pupils during placements. Academic attainment was not a central component
of the model due to pupils’ need to (10) prioritize examined work for
further/higher education entry.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    31 December 2015

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1002/nop2.23

  • ISSN:

    2054-1058

  • Library of Congress:

    RT Nursing

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    610.7 Medical education, research & nursing

Citation

Smith, A., Beattie, M., & Kyle, R. G. (2015). “I know exactly what I'm going into”: recommendations for pre-nursing experience from an evaluation of a pre-nursing scholarship in rural Scotland. Nursing Open, 2(3), 105-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.23

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Keywords

Action research, nurse recruitment andRetention; pre-nursing experience; qualitativeresearch; scholarship;

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