This report analyses whether the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision, and Nurse Teacher (CLES+T) survey is a valid tool for assessing nursing students’ perception of the quality of their learning in community settings in New Zealand.
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Evaluating the quality of workplace learning for nursing students in community settings (PDF, 400Kb)
Background:
In New Zealand, the education of registered nurses is a three year Bachelor of Nursing Degree which includes “a minimum of 1100 practice hours”. Of these practice hours, some are to include community based workplace settings as distinct from hospital workplace settings.
The CLES+T survey is a tool for assessing students’ perception of the quality of their learning in community settings.
Completed in 2010, this project was a collaboration of Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology and Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland.
Report prepared by Deborah Sims, Paul Watson, Philippa Seaton, Rose Whittle, Isabel Jamieson, Mikko Saarikoski and Jane Mountier.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)