A review of the Reflective Narratives of Students enrolled in a Diploma Nursing Program: a descriptive study.

Abstract

This research study with an emphasis on reflection, focused on identifying and describing thoughts and ideas that students in a three-year diploma nursing program have about clinical practice issues. The study describes whether a connection exists between the amount of clinical experience and the clinical issues that students think about. The study also examined the levels of thinking that nursing students in a three-year diploma nursing program engage in and wether there is relationship between clinical experience and the level of thinking that are used by the nursing students.