Open AccessNursing Students’ Satisfaction towards Clinical Learning Environment (CLE) in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre
Author(s) -
Jalina Karim,
Amirun Hani Farhan Abdul Majid,
Nurul Fazira Mohd Rashdan,
Mohd Nasri Awang Besar,
Mohamad Nurman Yaman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
education in medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2180-1932
DOI - 10.21315/eimj2020.12.4.1
Subject(s) - preceptor , nursing , nonprobability sampling , medicine , head nurse , scale (ratio) , psychology , population , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
In the previous studies, it was found that many nursing students have the highest satisfaction towards clinical learning environment (CLE). CLE has an impact on nursing students in preparing them in terms of knowledge and providing quality care for patients. The objective of this study was to determine the level of satisfaction among nursing students in the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) towards CLE. A purposive sampling technique was used in quantitative and cross-sectional descriptive design. Ninety-three of Year 1 to Year 4 nursing students participated by answering modified self-reported Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES + T) scale questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of three sections; sociodemographic, clinical placement and five dimensions of satisfaction towards CLE (pedagogical atmosphere, leadership style of the head nurse, premises of nursing in the ward, preceptor relationship and role of the preceptor). In medical ward, 51.6% of nursing students had high satisfaction towards CLE and 48.4% reported to have low satisfaction. Whereas for surgical, orthopaedic, homecare and critical area wards reported to have 50% for both high and low satisfaction towards CLE. The relationship between year of study, gender and level of satisfaction towards CLE among nursing students in UKMMC were statistically not significant (p = 0.715, p = 0.139). Among the five dimensions of satisfaction towards CLE, leadership style of the head nurse was the highest (72.0%) and the lowest (30.1%) was from pedagogical atmosphere. This study showed that regardless of specific clinical placement for the nursing students, their satisfaction towards CLE were almost similar and the leadership style of the head nurse had the highest impact. Perhaps, the impact of involvement of the head nurse in the clinical teaching should be explored further in the future.