Question

In your last semester of nursing school, you note that your clinical instructor changes teaching tactics. No one looks over your shoulder any longer during every assessment, you are allowed more freedom to perform assessments and make clinical judgments, the clinical hours coincide with normal shift hours, and you are allowed to volunteer to perform nursing procedures with staff nurses. Although this makes you nervous, you realize that this is necessary for your transition into nursing practice.

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1. Identify strategies used by the instructor to assist you in your transition.
   
2. What other steps could the clinical instructor take to assist your transition to nursing?
   
3. What strategies does your nursing program use to assist students to transition into realistic nursing practice?
   
4. Identify a support system that can assist you during the transition period.
   

Answer 1

Answer:-  

The best available evidence related to strategies implemented by the instructor (behavior, teaching method, and other factor)that have been found through student report of experiences that impact role transition from nursing student to registered nurse.

The clinical instructor is an integral part of a quality clinical experience. They help students transfer didactic information to the practice setting. The nurses instructor should play an important role in preparing the student nurse in becoming a competent nurse in the practice setting. Combined clinical and teaching skill to help nursing students transfer knowledge acquired during lectures, lab and applying this knowledge to the clinical situations while performing the hands-on patient care in the practice setting.

Very realistic clinical scenarios helps students nurses to develop competence, team work etc. The transition from nursing student to registered nurse can exciting, stressful and challenging. The role of the mentor in the final clinical practice is essential for nursing students.