Nursing and Local Preceptor

As one of a worker’s ministry of health, I feel very proud become a nurse but sometimes it is also to challenges while on duty. I was working with ministry of health as a staff nurse 13 year ago. I have been working in paediatric ward, labour room and currently I am in maternity ward. In maternity ward, they is one nursing sister as a ward manager, 7 trained staff nurse with midwifery course, 7 other’s trained staff nurse without midwifery course, and 14 other trained nurse. As a team, we work together to deliver better nursing care to our client’s. My working place is one of the practice areas for medical personal’s and student’s to do their practical in midwifery. My objective for this assignment is to explore whether the working environment at my unit is suitable for learning. To create a learning environment, ward should have a good staff as a friend attitude, approachable, willing to help, showing interest in teaching and self confidence at work. In my ward we have very good relationship, where to give support to each other, not only in our profession as a nurse but also those in needs by giving moral support. So, the mentor and the mentee must get this opportunity to know each other. The close relationship will give benefit to the mentee to learn the skills of the clinical placement. Furthermore, the relationship will make the mentee start taking responsibility, become independent and needs help less. To support this, Brown (2002) defined communication as to impact share, conveys or exchanged information. (English National Board and Department of health (ENB and DH) 2001a, Andrew and Roberts 2003) suggested, to enhance the clinical experience, it is importance to provide students with appropriate support, guidance and supervision in the clinical area .Besides, working environment also play the important role. In my learning areas, the learner mostly felt uncomfortable due to noisy from client relatives, environment temperature high