Professor and Principal, College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Prof. Suresh K Sharma, PhD, MScN, RN currently works as Professor & Principal at College of Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur. His areas of research is critical care nursing, diabetes, infectious diseases, hepatology & gastroenterology Nursing
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Clinical Practice Readiness of Nursing Graduates
Author(s): Suresh K Sharma*, Nipin Kalal and Ritu Rani
Nurses form the majority of the healthcare workers, despite that, nurses continue to face challenges in terms of availability, distribution, retention. In order to evade nurses’ global shortage, the total number of nursing graduates needs to be increased by 8% per year on average. However, data showed that graduates are often unprepared to work in the complex field of clinical practice, where increased patient acuity and shorter hospital stays, combined with a lack of deep learning in our academic nursing programs, have exacerbated the competency crisis.
Furthermore, nursing graduates face challenges that impede nursing students' clinical practice readiness, such as a lack of clinical learning materials, a shortage of well-qualified and skilled nursing faculty in terms of both quality and quantity, and inadequately equipped nursing skill laboratories. Besides, lack.. View more»