International internship
experience for emergency
medical
service paramedic students.
The challenges and dif culties of
the nursing interns during their
clinical internship in Qassim
Region, Saudi Arabia
Evaluation of nurse interns’
satisfaction
and hospital as an educational
environment
in nursing internship training
program,
Saudi Arabia
Authors
Daifallah Alrazeeni
Asma Rayan Alharbi, Khaled
Fahad Alhosis.
Badria Mahrous Abdelhameed
Mohammed, Waled Amen
Mohammed Ahmed
Place / date
of study
Saudi Journal of
Anesthesia / October‐
December 2018
Saudi Journal for Health
Sciences, January-April 2019
Saudi Journal for Health
Sciences, January-April 2020
Aims
delineate the training
activities in the internship
program, describe students’
clinical and emergency
medical service eld hours
and skills performance.
challenges and dif culties
encountered by nursing students
during their internship year.
evaluate the nurse interns’
satisfaction and hospital as an
educational environment.
Methodology
-retrospective.
-descriptive.
-analytical
-Descriptive qualitative design.
-face-to-face semi-structured
interview among select 17
nursing interns.
- descriptive cross‐sectional
study.
- Sample size of 195.
- sociodemographic and
personal datasheet,
satisfaction scale.
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Finding
-Training hours.
-Patients contact.
-Skills performance.
The results revealed that the
internship program helped
PSCEMS students
accomplish several learning
means: such as
communication skills
development, professional
socialization, an
interdisciplinary work
environment,a professional
methodology, and enables
them to practice their
psychomotor skills.
Themes:
-Treating inappropriately:
lack of communication from the
nursing staffs which is shown
either by negligence or
nonresponsiveness.
-Feeling lost:
lack of regular follow‑ups from
their respective colleges either
through call or visit.
-Shocking from reality:
the interns were apprehensive to
the limited scope of practice of
nurses as established in the
hospital policies and procedures.
They expected that most of the
nursing skills could be practiced
independently in the clinical
areas.
-results of this study revealed
that there were no statistically
signi cant relationships between
all studied interns’ demographic
variables except (age, and
marital status).
-signi cant relationship was
found between job satisfaction
and area of work.
-positive relationship between
job satisfaction, organizational
commitment and
supportive work environment
which will positively affect
patient outcomes.