IMPACT OF STRUCTURED CLINICAL SUPERVISION ON NURSING STUDENTS

Clinical supervision is the basis of learning for nursing students. Unlike other professions, nursing profession strives to prepare efficient nurses through the planned coordinated and comprehensive curriculum. The researchers felt that providing a direction and having a format could help in improving the clinical supervision and thus have a positive impact on learning of the students. Thus the statement of the problem was “A study to assess the impact of structured clinical supervision on nursing students in selected nursing institute. Two group post test only control group design was implemented for students studying in second yr GNM and second yr BSc. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used. The Data collection- tools were Observation checklist And Ward test and technique was Self Reporting method. It was seen that the clinical supervisors were able to complete all the tasks that were assigned during the clinical posting for the control as well as experimental group of students. Thus, it shows that the instructors perform their duties diligently, sincerely and in an orderly organized pattern. It was evident from the study that though there was no difference among task accomplishment of the supervisors, there was better performance in the ward test in the experimental group. Thus clinical knowledge was much better in the experimental group. The clinical supervision was similar in both the groups; but the supervisors felt that the structured plan guided them better and assisted them in ensuring that they complete the posting as per the plan.