| Learning Objective #1: Understand the effects undergraduate nursing students have on staff time, development, and personal satisfaction with their employment | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Understand the effects undergraduate nursing students have on a clinical agency, including quality of care given to patients and adherence to standards of practice |
The purpose of this study is to identify staff nurse perceptions of the contributions of students to clinical agencies. Acute care clinical placements for student nurses are becoming more competitive, particularly in the state of Utah. Historically, nursing service and education have assumed that agencies provide a service by facilitating student placements, but there is little in the literature which has explored the potential benefits students may create for these clinical agencies. By revealing benefits of students to agencies where they are placed, the authors hope to keep the student-facility relationships strong and create even more opportunities for student nurses. The perceptions of staff nurses regarding the potential benefits of having students working beside them was recently explored by Grindel and associates (2001). The replication and extension of this work surveyed 200 nurses working in four specialty areas on units where BYU College of Nursing undergraduate students have clinical rotations. A 54 item survey (developed by Grindel and associates, 2001) was used. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics.
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