Challenges faced by nurse educators in teaching research to undergraduate students

• Main Author: Bhembe, Thabsile Margaret
• Other Authors: Roets, Lizeth
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Nursing research; Research supervision; Research teaching; Swaziland; 610.730711; Nurse educators; Nursing > Research; Nursing > Study and teaching (Higher)
• Online Access: Bhembe, Thabsile Margaret (2014) Challenges faced by nurse educators in teaching research to undergraduate students, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19626>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19626

The aim of nursing practice is to provide evidence-based care that ensures quality outcomes for patients, families, healthcare providers and the health care system. This may only occur with increased exposure to nursing research. Nursing education institutions should therefore ensure that students are prepared to provide evidence-based care by participating in and conducting research. The purpose of the study is to explore and describe the challenges faced by nurse educators in teaching research methodology and supervising undergraduate nursing students at a university in order to make recommendations to support nurse educators in teaching research and supervising research projects. Qualitative, explorative, contextual and descriptive research was conducted to explore and describe the challenges experienced by nurse educators. Data were collected through a focus group discussion. Nine nurse educators participated in the research study. Participants acknowledged that they faced challenges in teaching research methodology and supervising research projects. The challenges described pertained to human resources; research experience, competencies and guidelines; physical resources; and a lack of support from their institution’s management. Based on the challenges, recommendations were made to address the lack of specific competencies, research guidelines, student/educator ratios, physical resources and technology issues === Health Studies === M.A. (Health Studies)