HAZARDS OF PRACTICAL TRAINING AT OUTPATIENT CLINICS AS PERCEIVED BY SECONDARY TECHNICAL NURSING STUDENTS

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1 community health nursing

2 Professor of Family and Community Health Nursing, faculty of nursing port-said University

3 Assistant Professor of family and community health nursing department, Faculty of nursing, Port Said University

Abstract

Background: Unpredictable nature of training environment can create some problems for nursing students .Lack of knowledge and skills in the clinical environment can lead to anxiety and  make  them more vulnerable to occupational hazards.:. Aim: Assess the hazards of practical training at outpatient clinics as perceived by secondary technical nursing students in Port Said City. Subjects and method:  Design: A descriptive design used to conduct this study. Setting: This study was carried out at outpatient clinics in two hospitals namely  Al-Amery and Al-Nasr hospital Subjects: convenience sample (522 student) , in two nursing  school  Al-Amery and Al-Nasr school in port said city. Tools: Data was collected using four tools,Tool I:Self-Administered Questionnaire divided into two parts:  sociodemographic data, and  knowledge assessment sheet, Tool II: Attitude scale, Tool III:Observation checklist, Tool IV: Environmental Assessment sheet, .Results: The study results revealed that 58.1%of the students had unsatisfactory knowledges about hazards, 55.9% of them had negative attitude toward hazards, 51.7% of them  had inadequate performance of safety standards and precaution procedures 57.1% of them perceived effective environmental assessment of safety measures in the setting Conclusion: more than half of studied students had unsatisfactory knowledge, negative  attitudes toward hazards of practical training ,also more than half of them have inadequate performance of safety measures and standards precautions  while more than half of them perceived effective environmental assessment of safety measures in study setting. Recommendations: Health education programs for nursing students about hazards of practical training and how to cope with this hazards.
 

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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing
Volume 9, Issue 2
August 2022
Pages 96-124

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