Health System Development and Management

Running head: HEALTH SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Health System Development and Management
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Journal Title Enhancing nursing education via academic-clinical
partnership: An integrative review
APA Citation Bvumbwe, T. (2016). Enhancing nursing education via
academic–clinical partnership: an integrative
review.
International journal of nursing sciences,
3(3), 314-
322.
Methodology:
 The first step of the methodology included problem identification.
The problem of the research has been selected from a NEPI review
process which identifies inadequate association between practical
and academic setting as a chief setback for training Malawi nurses.
 Relevant literatures related to the research topic has been selected
rom academic data bases like ScienceDirect, PubMed, Medline,
PsychINFO on EBCSOhost, and Google Scholar.
 Key words like “academic-practice collaboration, academic
practitioner gap, college hospital partnership or/and nursing” and
others were used for searching relevant articles.
 The year of publication has been limited from 2002 to 2016 in order
to ensure relevancy o the research paper.
 Along with academic literatures, chief stakeholders has been

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approached for providing relevant materials like government
policies, progress reports as well as project reports associated with
nursing education.
 Records has been evaluated for their own authenticity, informational
value as well as methodological quality. The abstracts of the chosen
articles has been analyzed for assessing their relevancy with the
research topic.
 Classical content analysis method has been used for analyzing data.
The data has been extracted as well as coded into a framework.
 The researchers have adopted an iterative process to examine data
displays with the help o the comparison method for facilitating the
distinction of patterns.
Essential Concepts Related to the Study:
 Concerns associated with poor nursing quality along with lack of
competencies amongst the nurses nursing students as well as the
mid wives are increasing in Malawi.
 The chief reasons behind lack of competencies and poor quality of
nursing has been found be lack of evidenced based practice, lack of
collaboration and resource sharing and challenges associated with
the academic clinical partnership.
 It has been found that academic practice partnership promotes
development in shared goal progress for the healthcare system. The
capacity of the mentors in the clinical field when it comes to