title: Toward creating an optimal acute care clinical learning environment: insights from staff, faculty, and students.
abstract: Understanding how a clinical site impacts student learning was the focus for a participatory action research study in which three separate focus groups for students, faculty, and staff were convened. Participants were asked to identify what they enjoyed or liked about the clinical setting, what they disliked about the clinical setting, and what they would change about the clinical setting. Themes identified by a constant comparative method included experiences provided, attitudes, and expectations. Although the researchers anticipated that each group would have a unique and different perspective on the clinical experience, respondents were consistent in their beliefs both within and among groups. Of interest, each participant group attributed an ineffective clinical learning environment to external causes.
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Young
authors: Vicki
authors: V
authors: Simpson
authors: Sara A
authors: SA
authors: McComb
authors: Jane M
authors: JM
authors: Kirkpatrick
authors: Joseph M
authors: JM
authors: La Lopa
authors: Karen S
authors: KS
authors: Bullard
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D064648:Critical Care Nursing / Q000193:education*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*