AN ANALYSIS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING ENVIRONMENT AND PRECEPTOR PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The study looks at how nursing and midwifery students of the University of Health and Allied Sciences feel about their vocational training environment and how well their preceptors perform. The findings show that students’ satisfaction with their clinical ward environment, preceptor’s leadership style, supervisor-patient relationship, and placement staff-preceptor collaboration were higher than expected. Satisfaction was lower than expected in leadership, theory-to-practice integration, and student-preceptor relationship. The study suggests improving vocational training environment aspects with lower priority scores and satisfaction scores, arguing that students’ expectations and satisfaction are just as important in determining vocational training effectiveness.

Keywords: Vocational training, Preceptor roles, Students’ expectation and Satisfaction, Quality vocational training outcomes.