Table 2 Interview guide for nurse educators and final-year nursing students

Interview guide

• What does quality patient care mean to you?

• Based on your own experiences, what do you think the challenges are that comserve nurse (NGRNs) face when attempting to deliver quality patient care?

• What do you think must be done by NEIs to overcome these challenges to deliver quality patient care?

• Do you think the problems which clinical practice environments experience with regard to quality patient care are due to a lack of KSAs, please elaborate?

• Which of these three concepts knowledge, skills or attitudes do you think is the biggest problem?

• Do you think the training that nursing students receive at NEIs is adequate to develop the necessary KSAs to deliver quality patient care? Please elaborate.

• Do you think the nursing curriculum is presented by the NEI in such a way that the focus is on the KSAs which nursing students need to effectively deliver quality patient care when appointed as comserve nurse (NGRN)? Please elaborate.

• What should the NEI focus on more with regard to KSAs?

• What does the NEI currently focus on with regard to the KSAs?

• In your opinion, what specific KSAs do comserve nurses (NGRNs) need to deliver quality patient care?