Exploration of Student Nurses’ Voices Regarding Self-Leadership in Clinical Learning at the Limpopo College of Nursing, South Africa

M. A. Mmakola, T. M. Mothiba and M. A. Bopape

Global Journal of Health Science, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 125

Abstract: BACKGROUND- Self-leadership is explained as a dynamic interaction of cognitive, behavioural and effective elements, geared towards self-influencing actions of an individual within the academic context. The purpose of this study was to determine the views of student nurses regarding self-leadership in clinical learning at the Limpopo College of nursing, South Africa OBJECTIVE- A non- probability, convenience, purposive sampling was used to select 16 students who voluntarily agreed to participate in this study. The researcher conducted semi-structured, one-to-one interviews which were audio recorded and transcribed. Data collection was done and analysed using the Tesch’s inductive, descriptive coding technique. RESULTS- One theme and its sub-themes emerged namely- self-leadership associated with responsibility and accountability, self-leadership viewed as a learned strategy, self-leadership - a difficult act to achieve, self-leadership is a beneficial process during clinical learning periods and self-leadership viewed as the adoption of personal values CONCLUSION- The findings of the study revealed that students shared the same views related to the enhancement of self-leadership in the clinical environment. In this regard, the various strategies were found to be used by students to support self-leadership learning.

Date: 2019
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