- Title
- The experiences of learners in large classes regarding the use of virtual technology at a nursing college
- Creator
- Moeketsi, Senkgobeng Maria
- Subject
- Nursing - Study and teaching, Virtual reality in education - Evaluation, Computer-assisted instruction - Evaluation
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/91453
- Identifier
- uj:20105
- Description
- Abstract: The mandate to increase nurses training by 20% per annum was given by Gauteng Province Premier in his state of address in 2004. The increased number of learner nurses has reduced the ability of lecturers in the nursing college under study to use traditional method of demonstrating clinical skills (Woolley & Jarvis, 2006:73). Responding to the challenges of teaching clinical skills to a large number of learner nurses using the traditional method of clinical demonstrations led to the lecturers exploring other teaching strategies that would be effective in learners achieving clinical competence. Virtual technology has been used successfully in this regard (Sadler & Nelson, 2007:83). The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the experiences of learner nurses in a large class regarding the use of virtual technology in a nursing college in order to describe the strategies to improve the use of virtual technology as a clinical teaching strategy. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and contextual phenomenological design was used in order to gain an understanding of the lived experiences of learner nurses regarding the use of virtual technology in demonstrating clinical skills to a large class. The selected population were third-year learner nurses doing completing the Diploma in Nursing (General, Psychiatric and Community) and Midwifery who were exposed to the use of virtual technology as a method to demonstrate clinical skills to a large class. The purposive sampling method was used. The sample for this study comprises third-year learner nurses who were exposed to the use of virtual technology as a method to demonstrate clinical skills to a large class. Individual, phenomenological, semistructured interviews were conducted and an audiotape recorder was used to record the interviews with the participants’ permission. Field notes were taken to enrich the data (Burns & Grove, 2009:355). Data was analysed using Tesch’s protocol of open coding qualitative data analysis (Creswell, 2009:186)..., M.Cur. (Professional Nursing Science)
- Contributor
- Zibi, P. S., Mrs., Chabeli, M. M., Prof.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Johannesburg
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