Exploring the experiences of nursing students in debriefing: A qualitative study
Wafaa Elarousy
King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia
: J Regen Med
Abstract
Debriefing is a process involving the active participation of learners, guided by a facilitator or instructor whose primary goal is to identify and close gaps in knowledge and skills (Raemer D. 2011 & Pivec J., Renee C., 2011). It promotes understanding and supports transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes with focus on safe and high quality of patient care (Decker S. Et.al 2013). Our college students’ qualitative survey of fall semester academic year 2015-2016 for many clinical courses included negative feedbacks that reported by students related to debriefing period. So, the aim of the study is to explore in depth the experiences of nursing students in debriefing through a qualitative design. A debriefing task force committee was developed by College Quality Unit and the results of the current study will help the work of this committee. Methodolgy: The study was conducted at College of Nursing – Jeddah, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University of Health Science and included nursing students who enrolled in clinical courses using convenient sampling technique. A qualitative research design was used as the researchers believe that qualitative research will achieve the objective. Focus group discussion was used until saturation of information is achieved on the topic. Using the recorded interviews and transcription verbatim, analysis is done using content analysis.
Biography
Wafaa Elarousy is assistant professor, pediatric nursing, chair of the Student Research Unit, College of Nursing – Jeddah, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for health Science since Academic year 2009 -2010 till now. She has completed her master’s degree and her PhD in Pediatric nursing from the College of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt. She has a position of assistant professor in the same college. She has 16 publications, her research interest: In the area of neonatology, adolescents’ health, child abuse and neglect, pediatric simulation and nursing education.
E-mail: wafaaelarousy@hotmail.com
