Uukule, Ndapunikwa2014-02-072014-02-072006http://hdl.handle.net/11070/313This study was exploratory and descriptive in nature in which the researcher aimed to explore and describe how student nurses are guided by clinical nurse instructors in the training hospital of Oshana regionA quantitative as well as a qualitative approach has been utilized for this study. The quantitative part of the study was to get personal and professional information from the clinical nurse instructors. The qualitative approach was used to explore the views and attitudes of the clinical nurse instructors and student nurses towards clinical guidance as the researcher was directly involved in the interviewsQuestionnaires were distributed to the clinical nurse instructors to fill in and returned to the researcher before conducting the focus group discussion. Four (4) focus group interviews were held with clinical nurse instructors, as well as, and three (3) focus group interviews with student nurses. The interviews were conducted in one of the classrooms at the Oshakati Regional Health Training Centre which was conducive for the discussions because it was not too noisyThe study population consisted of twenty nine (29) clinical nurse instructors from Oshakati hospital of whom twenty-two (22) responded. The population of student nurses consisted of twenty six (26) respondents of whom sixteen (16) respondedThe findings indicated that the professional background of clinical nurse instructors was inadequate for pursuing a teaching role since none of the clinical nurse instructors have specialized in nursing education and most of them do not have any training on clinical instruction and guidance.The findings also revealed that the guidance given to student nurse is inadequate, because it is mostly given on request. It further indicated that the clinical nurse instructors are insecure and lack self confidence, because they were unsure whether what they did is right or wrongIt was highly recommended from this study that staff development programmes be developed to help clinical nurse instructors to be better prepared for their role.i, 119 leavesengHealth Care IndustryNursesNurses supervisionOshana regionThesis