THE STUDENT NURSES’ SKILL OF MANAGING THEIR TIME
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https://doi.org/10.12955/pmp.v2.171Keywords:
Time Management, Student Nurses, Time Management Training, Time Planning SkillsAbstract
Introduction: Time is one of the basic resources in each human activity. It holds a special place in health care. Either its deficiency or underestimation may lead to the negative and even fatal aftermath for human life.
Objective: The purpose of this report is to identify the reasons for poor time management of student nurses.
Methods: A standardized questionnaire was answered by a total of 89 student nurses from the 1st year and 3rd year courses, in the nursing bachelor degree from the Ruse University of Angel Kanchev, Bulgaria. The questionnaire was held in January 2021.
Results: From this study we have determined that those who are capable of managing their time and always plan well are just 26%(23n) of all respondents, more than a half of them only sometimes plan their tasks, 61%(54n), whereas 13%(12n) never do. As for the compliance of the deadlines, only 31.5% (28n) of them always manage to do so, while the rest of the students only sometimes do so.
Conclusions: The inability of student nurses to plan their time is just one of the reasons for concern. It was determined that the lack of training for effective time management, intense workload in higher education, not realizing they have to manage their time and their young age, significantly affect the student nurses’ proper management of time.
UDC Classification: 37.04, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12955/pmp.v2.170
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