Student-Run Hospital Wards: A Replication Study Evaluating a Particular Workplace Learning Setting for Nursing Students

• In Event: Workplace Learning: Paper Session 1

Abstract

Student-run hospital wards (SHW) are institutionalized learning arrangements in which nursing students are fully responsible for the planning, organization, and implementation of patient care within a real-existing hospital ward for a limited time frame of usually two to four weeks during their initial nursing training. This contribution investigates two particular SHW within the same hospital two years in a row. A theoretically-grounded research design employing research diaries, both pre- and post-test questionnaires, and interviews was developed to get insights about (a) why and how nursing students learn during their time in SHWs, (b) what competences are developed, and (c) whether the findings from the first year can be replicated in the second year.

Authors

• Bianca Steffen, University of Paderborn

• Michael Goller, University of Paderborn

• Christian Harteis, Paderborn University