Importance Of Clinical Skills In Nursing

The Importance of Classroom and Clinical Skills When I first thought of nursing as my profession, I knew that it was not going to be an easy task. Becoming a nurse means that you must retain all the knowledge you have learned during the two and a half years of nursing school to eventually diagnose a patient, reveal symptoms, and ultimately heal the patient. Throughout the years, I have watched many people struggle as nurses throughout the hospitals and nursing students while they are in the nursing program. I know from past experience that I do not want a nurse who is not certain on the diagnosis or procedure they are going to be performing. The ultimate question is how should nursing programs train students to become nurses that

Classroom skills can be defined as being lectured by professors, reading textbooks, and taking tests over what they have learned. Everything a student learns in nursing does not need to be stored in the back of your brain. The information learned in nursing will appear in real life situations, so it is important that a student comprehends the information, but could also use the information in the real life situations. After a student has excelled in one concept, they need to be able to practice on a dummy the skills. Both Coyle and Mitchell described that trial and error is key (Coyle & Mitchell). However, Coyle stated in his article that there is a difference in error when it is pertained to real life situations, which he describes by flying an airplane (Coyle, 2009, p.23-24). This would be an example of a nurse trying to start an IV on a patient, continuously blowing the patients veins until the arm had no more veins to be pricked left and the arm was

Coyle believed that you needed to make the task more difficult when you were practicing it (Coyle, 2009). Coyle also stated that you always needed to work on your ability to do something and have supervision because that makes you want to push yourself harder (Coyle, 2009). For example, when a nursing student is trying to find a vein to start an IV, the nurse is supervising the student. After multiple times of the nurse’s assistance, the student will be able to pick a perfect vein to start an IV. Mitchell disagrees with Coyle because he thought that students did not need to have supervision all the time (Mitchell, 2006). When a student enters the clinical setting, the nursing student is not set free by themselves. The student is learning how to interact with patients, learning what to do in certain situations, and realizing what the student needs to work on. A nursing student should not go through three years of nursing school without clinical practice. The skills the nursing student learned the first year may have been forgotten. This displays Coyle’s theory of how deep practice needs to be a big skill of excelling a task (Coyle, 2009). A nursing program needs to implement clinical setting skills for the nursing students so they can get a feel of what it will be like when they are