Nursing students’ experiences with clinical communication using a virtual program.

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dc.contributor.authorSamwel, Shelley
dc.contributor.supervisorHills, Marcia
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-06T19:15:49Z
dc.date.available2017-01-06T19:15:49Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2017-01-06
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Nursingen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Nursing M.N.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe accrediting and nursing organizations are promoting patient safety and well-being by emphasizing clinical language proficiency. This presents a challenge for English as second language (ESL) nursing students in learning language skills for the clinical environment. This study explicates the experiences and reflections from nursing students, who are not native English speakers that used a virtual simulation program called vSim in relation to clinical language skills. Five students participated in this study. A qualitative study utilizing hermeneutic phenomenological methodology was used to collect experiential data and then was interpreted according to Van Manen’s (1990) data analysis method. Themes of confidence, patient safety, knowledge transfer from classroom to clinical, communication within the clinical environment, and acquisition of language skills emerged from the interviews and reflective journals. This research study shows that the use of a non -immersive virtual simulation provides a positive contribution to ESL nursing students’ experiences with clinical language skills and can provide nursing educators another teaching strategy to assist ESL nursing students achieve clinical language competency.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0569en_US
dc.description.proquestemailsh_samwel@rogers.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7732
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectESLen_US
dc.subjectClinical Nursingen_US
dc.subjectCommunicationen_US
dc.subjectVirtual Simulationen_US
dc.titleNursing students’ experiences with clinical communication using a virtual program.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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