Praksisveiledning av minoritetsspråklige sykepleierstudenter krever mer tid og tilrettelegging
Sammanfattning
Background: Research among minority language nursing students shows that they have a strong need for supervision and follow-up due to poor language understanding. Acquiring both linguistic and communicative competence takes time, and it is important that the students are offered specially adapted arrangements in order to complete their education.
Objective: To shed light on practice supervisors’ experiences of supervising minority language nursing students in a hospital context.
Method: The study has a qualitative design with individual interviews with ten practice supervisors from different departments in a hospital belonging to a regional hospital trust under the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority. Data were analysed using manifest content analysis.
Results: The practice supervisors found it challenging to supervise minority language students due to the students’ language skills. More time is needed for supervision and better cooperation between the educational institution and the field of practice.
Conclusion: The study shows that minority language nursing students face language challenges, and therefore need more supervision. There must be cooperation between the field of practice in hospitals and educational institutions in order to create a good learning situation for minority language nursing students. Consequently, facilitating individual follow-up of minority language students in bachelor’s degree programmes in nursing is highly recommended.