Students find it difficult to connect classroom learning to clinical experiences due to a gap between theoretical knowledge and patient conditions. Nursing institutions also face obstacles in providing suitable clinical sites, including a lack of available locations, shortages of clinical resources, and low patient ratios. Students suggest using a more integrated teaching approach, such as simulation exercises coordinated with course content, to help alleviate this problem.

1. Students’ Opinions
 Students feel that connecting didactic learning with
clinical experience is an almost impossible task
Barriers includes:
 An existing gap that prevents students from linking
classroom information with the conditions of
patients that they care for in the clinical setting.

2. Problems faced by Nursing Institutions
 Nursing institutions are faced with certain obstacles
such as:
 1. unavailability of sites
 2. suitability of sites
 3. shortage faced by clinical resources
 4. low patient ratio/acuity
These problems are main contributors to the
existing problems

3. Suggestions to alleviate the problem
 Nursing students believe that the use of:
more integrated approach to teaching including
simulations exercises that coincides with relevant
subject matter is an example of how this problem can
be alleviated