Students’ Perspectives on Learning Practical Nursing Skills: A Focus Group Study in Norway
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Example of the analysis process.
Transcripts
Meaningful units (codes)
Categories
No 1: I think about communication… No. 2: To learn how to communicate with different patients, tune in on the patient, you talk different to different persons, children, adults… No. 4: Different conditions they have, be sort of aware, in relation to the situation…be sensitive to that… No. 4: I was allowed to do that in practice, take blood samples, and then I was taught how…But it was kind of…how many times did I try, maybe four patients or so…So you could not say I know how to do it. I have only done it four times… No. 3: You need to repeat it several times…
Communicate and collaborate Be aware of different patients Be sensitive to different situations Allowed to do it in practice Do not learn procedures by doing it only four times Need repetition and further training
