Clinics in Mother and Child Health

Department of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Clinical Practice Readiness of Nursing Graduates
  Author(s): Suresh K Sharma*, Nipin Kalal and Ritu Rani
  
  Nurses form the majority of the healthcare workers, despite that, nurses continue to face challenges in terms of availability, distribution, retention. In order to evade nurses’ global shortage, the total number of nursing graduates needs to be increased by 8% per year on average. However, data showed that graduates are often unprepared to work in the complex field of clinical practice, where increased patient acuity and shorter hospital stays, combined with a lack of deep learning in our academic nursing programs, have exacerbated the competency crisis. Furthermore, nursing graduates face challenges that impede nursing students' clinical practice readiness, such as a lack of clinical learning materials, a shortage of well-qualified and skilled nursing faculty in terms of both quality and quantity, and inadequately equipped nursing skill laboratories. Besides, lack.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.21.18.381

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