You want to find out what your second-year colleagues who did their practicum at the local hospital thought of their recent clinical placement in the medical ward. What open-ended questions could you ask? You have been reading some literature on the experiences of nursing students across Australia and New Zealand and have a fair idea about some of the issues impacting on their clinical placement
Design a Likert-type questionnaire to obtain quantitative data from the same cohort of students about their perceptions of these issues.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWERS Open-ended questions—examples • Briefly comment on the three most enjoyable aspects of your placement. • Briefly comment on the three least enjoyable aspects of your placement • Do you have any suggestions to enhance and/or improve clinical placements in the future? Closed-ended Likert-type scale—example To what extent did the following factors contribute to your enjoyment in your clinical placement on the medical ward? Contributing factors Very little Somewhat Moderate A great deal Senior nursing clinicians 1 2 3 4 Other nurses 1 2 3 4 Interactions with domestic staff 1 2 3 4 Interactions with patients 1 2 3 4 Medical staff 1 2 3 4 Allied health professionals (e.g. occupational therapists) 1 2 3 4 Conferences/discussions about patient care etc with senior nurses 1 2 3 4 Opportunity to learn from the environment (e.g. nursing and medical procedures) 1 2 3 4 Responsibility involved in patient care 1 2 3 4 Night duty 1 2 3 4 Day duty 1 2 3 4 General assistance and support from nurses on the ward 1 2 3 4
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