Correlation between communication and preceptorship toward attitudes of nurse students

Abstract

Objective

to understand the correlation between the preceptorship, communication guidance and the attitudes of students studying the nurse profession programme.

Method

A quantitative correlational study. A total of 131 students of Nurse Profession programme was recruited in one university in Jakarta from January to March 2018. Partial Least Square (PLS) identified the correlation among variables.

Results

Communication analysis style obtained the highest mean value of 12.54, and the environmental indicator obtained the lowest mean value of 8.13. The attitude analysis results revealed the highest mean value of 45.54. Structural equality analysis indicated that preceptorship was related to the attitudes and communication of students of nurse profession programme while communication was related to the attitudes of students of nurse profession programme.

Conclusions

It expected that the implementation of preceptorship programme combined with communication guidance might improve nurse student attitude, especially empathy and caring in practice.