Clinical Practice

Clinical practice is described as central to nursing education because it enables application of knowledge, clinical reasoning, psychomotor skill development, and professional identity formation. A clinic's maximum throughput was 10 to 12 clients per day. Clinical practice was discontinued after 29 years of seeing clients. Scale limitations of individual clinical practice were the primary reason for the transition to online content. Clinical learning environments can become stressful for nursing students. Clinical difficulties reported by students included knowledge deficits, physical fatigue, communication problems, and insufficient guidance. Inadequate support during clinical practice can reduce self-confidence, motivation, decision-making ability, and professional commitment. Unsupported students may avoid practice and miss learning opportunities, with possible implications for patient safety and care quality.