JOB-RELATED CHALLENGES OF CLINICAL TEACHING OF NURSING STUDENTS AMONG CLINICAL NURSE INSTRUCTORS IN IMO STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

Nursing is a professional discipline and its members are professionals whose preparations enable them practice at various levels either as nurse administrators, nurse clinicians, nurse researchers or nurse educators, among others (Oermann & Gaberson, 2009). As a profession, nursing programmes aim to produce safe, knowledgeable, skillful and caring practitioners and professionals who are able to provide effective evidence-based care (Gray, 2013 in Brooker & Waugh, 2013). A professional is an individual who possesses expert knowledge and skills in a specific domain. The expert knowledge and skills is acquired through formal education in institutions of higher learning and through experience. As a professional, the individual uses those knowledge and skills on behalf of society by serving specified clients (Oermann & Gaberson, 2009; Asfour & El-Soussi, 2011). Professional disciplines, according to Oermann and Gaberson (2009) and Asfour and El-Soussi (2011) are differentiated from academic...