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Supervising Undergraduate Nursing Students on Their Bachelor's Thesis. A Qualitative Study.
- Source :
- SAGE Open Nursing; 1/10/2024, p1-10, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Introduction: The bachelor's thesis (BT) in undergraduate education is often an autonomous and individual assignment. It aims to demonstrate knowledge gained through education, to be an assessment tool, and to give new learning outcomes through working on the thesis. The process of working with the BT most often includes individual supervision. There is an absence of support for teachers supervising undergraduate nursing theses, which includes a lack of national or institutional guidelines, role definitions and research material. Objective: Given the lack of helpful guidelines, this study aims to explore what the teachers emphasize as important regarding their supervision of nursing students writing their BT. Methods: The study has a qualitative approach, featuring individual semi-structured interviews with nursing teachers supervising nursing students on the BT. Reflexive thematic analysis is used as the method of analysis. Results: The analyses resulted in two generated themes, each with two subthemes, describing the patterns the teachers emphasize as important aspects of their supervision of nursing students writing their BT. The themes were "The pedagogical approach to the supervision" and "The advantages of the bachelor's thesis to the nursing profession." Conclusions: The teachers balanced different roles in the supervision of the students. They wanted the students to grow through challenging them, grounded in a relationship of trust and confidence. They were role models for how to be critical thinkers and incorporated critical thinking as a pedagogical implement in supervision, wanting to raise the students to become nurses who think critically. The teachers sought to combine clinical relevance with academic literacy to secure a new generation of nurses able to be a part of the future development of the profession. They wanted to equip the students with knowledge, skills, and confidence to speak up and communicate nursing. Last, the teachers combined their clinical and academic identities in the supervision of the BT. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OCCUPATIONAL roles
PUBLISHING
TEACHING methods
CONFIDENCE
ROLE models
RESEARCH methodology
BACCALAUREATE nursing education
INTERVIEWING
UNDERGRADUATES
QUALITATIVE research
NURSING practice
MEDICAL protocols
LEARNING strategies
CRITICAL thinking
STUDENTS
EDUCATORS
CLINICAL competence
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
RESEARCH funding
NURSING students
SUPERVISION of employees
ACADEMIC dissertations
THEMATIC analysis
JUDGMENT sampling
CLINICAL education
TRUST
AUTHORSHIP
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23779608
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- SAGE Open Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174756309
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23779608231226074