Students views in training pre-service competent nurse using sequencing in the north west region of Cameroon: A quantitative research

Students’ views on the training of pre-service nurse using sequencing was investigated because of shortcoming in nurses training, student’s dissatisfaction with their training in some training institutions, inability of students to apply nursing procedures in clinical settings, no sequencing of courses, and the existence of a theory practice gapin nursing graduates. The objective was; to investigate the view of students in their training, in training institutions. This study aimed at analysing students’ views for training pre-service competent nurseusing sequencing in training institutions in the north west region of Cameroon. Methods: Quantitative and qualitative study,381 students were enrolled from six training institutions in the North West Region of Cameroon. A multistage sampling was used to sample students for data collection. Data collected through Systematic sampling and analysed by SPSS version. Results: A total of 381 students participated in the study. Findings reveal that the school curriculum meets student’s needs, content structured orderly, theoretical courses come before practical internship. Most of the students (40.5%) portray shortcomings such as lack of some courses in the curriculum that were supposed to be, some were supposed to be taught before other courses, (42.9%) students believed time allocated was inequitable,(43.7%) agreed that there is no perfect match between theoretical courses and clinical courses. Conclusion: According to nursing students’ views, there are shortcoming in the training curriculum that can be evidence of a theory practice gap.