Activities Performed by Student Nurses in a Medical Ward - An Observation Study

Dr. A. Tamilselvi

Abstract: Qualified nurses play a important role in achieving millennium developmental goals. Clinical field is a significant learning area for nursing students where students develop their clinical skills in order to become a professional nurse. Thus, it is important to conduct study to understand the activities performed by student nurses in clinical area. The results revealed that student perform 38.78% complex nursing care activities, 20.31% education related activities and 17.37% Nonproductive were performed. Student nurses have a total of 116.96 minutes per patient per day to provide nursing care to the patients.

Keywords: Activity analysis, Nursing Activities, Observational study