May 2016

Final year nursing students’ self-reported understanding of the relevance of bioscience

Student nurses’ competence in applying bioscience to practice is under-researched in South Africa. This paper reports on two objectives of a longer study: (1) to describe final year nursing students’ self-reported depth of understanding of six bioscience subjects; and (2) their perceptions of relevance of the bioscience subjects to their practice using descriptions of personal critical incidents and picture...

Author(s): Betty Rafferty and Una Kyriacos