School of Nursing and Midwifery Scholarly Impact Report 2021

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CATHERINE MCAULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UCC

PART A: TEACHING, CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE, AWARDS

Challenges faced by student nurses and midwives in clinical learning environment – A systematic review and meta-synthesis Nursing and midwifery are practice oriented professions and the clinical learning environment plays an important role in the pathway to prepare competent and confident nurses and midwives. This requires students to attain necessary knowledge, attitude, and skills through theoretical and practical learning. Being a clinical-based discipline, students’ clinical learning determines their motivation to learn. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the challenges experienced by students in the clinical learning environment to be able to optimise their learning experience. This systematic review was conducted to offer an insight into challenges experienced by student nurses and midwives in the clinical learning environment from the perspectives of students, their clinical instructors and clinical nurses andmidwives. Thiswas a voluntaryunfundedproject. The reviewprotocol was registered in PROSPERO (PROSPERO 2019 CRD42019119690). The review included 32 studies published over 22 years between 1997 and 2019 involving 853 nursing/ midwifery students, clinical instructors (academic staff), and clinical nurses/midwives from14countries. The threekey themes were ‘The support structure’, ‘Personal factors’, and ‘Planning and organisation – influence of extrinsic factors’ indicating the challenges associated with the support structure, attitude of clinical and academic staff and the theory-practice gap which influenced students’ clinical learning experience. Lead: Dr Sunita Panda Team members: Dr Manjubala Dash, PhD Dr Jomi John, PhD Ms Kalyani Rath, MSc Ms Anuradha Debata, MSc Ms Dharitri Swain, MSc Ms Krutideepa Mohanty, MSc Ms Jessica Eustace-Cook, MSc Link to the publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104875

Highlights

Dr Johnny Goodwin facilitates discussion around mental health and child protection during the 66th Cork International Film Festival • Support and attitude of clinical and academic staff, students’ self-motivation to learn and the gap between theoretical learning and clinical practice are a few key challenges experienced by students that influence their learning in the clinical learning environment. • Development of practical strategies with an attention to these factors will help overcome the challenges and optimise students’ learning experience on the path to becoming competent and confident nurses and midwives

Dr Johnny Goodwin, Orla Bushnell, John Finn. Photo by: Jed Niezgoda

Dr Goodwin facilitated a discussion with Orla Bushnell, Clinical Nurse Specialist/Systemic Family Therapist in Adult Mental Health (who is also a PhD student in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC) and John Finn, social worker. The film sparked an interesting post-screening discussion around mental health, multidisciplinary care, child protection, and the importance of family support. A very engaged audience were also invited to ask questions of the panel and share their views. “Film is a great way to educate the public,” says Dr Goodwin. “The film and the post-film discussion helped to provide the audience with some really important information about mental health.”

Lead and Team Members

Dr Johnny Goodwin, UCC. Orla Bushnell, Clinical Nurse Specialist/Systemic Family Therapist in Adult Mental Health John Finn, social worker

Interdisciplinary Webinar held

As part of the 66th Cork International Film Festival, the French/ Belgian film “The Hive” was screened. The Hive focuses on three sisters (Marion, Claire and Louise) who have been living with the severe emotional ups and downs of their mother, Alice.