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Table 4 Nurse students’ perceptions about opportunities to undertake pharmaceutical care within their previous clinical placements, split up for 4 levels of nurse education

From: Cross-sectional evaluation of pharmaceutical care competences in nurse education: how well do curricula prepare students of different educational levels?

Opportunity to undertake PC within previous clinical placements

All students

(n = 1807)

Level 4 students

(n = 26)

Level 5 students

(n = 117)

Level 6 students

(n = 1452)

Level 7 students

(n = 212)

p

Student has been introduced to responsibilities and tasks relating PC in clinical practice (yes, %)

80.0

73.1

76.9

80.1

81.5

0.620

Student has had sufficient opportunity to undertake PC in clinical practice (yes, %)

69.7

76.9

70.9

69.0

73.1

0.520

Student is satisfied with the supervision I have received when undertaking PC in clinical practice (yes, %)

69.9

88.5

67.5

70.0

67.9

0.173

Nurse mentors have had an important role in how the student has learned PC in practice (yes, %)

74.8

84.6

80.3

74.4

73.6

0.317

Student has received mentors’ feedback on their development in PC (yes, %)

65.5

80.8

72.6

64.7

65.1

0.123

  1. PC Pharmaceutical care. p calculated with Chi-Squared tests