Hands-on experiential learning within a clinical setting and the integration and translation of theoretical knowledge to practice have been explored as pedagogical methods to enhance nursing education. This study reports nursing students’ self-assessment of volunteer learning experience at hospitals and community pharmacies to enhance nursing pharmacologic knowledge. The study quantitatively evaluated the self-reported assessment of nursing students at hospital and community pharmacies in Belize using a convenient sampling technique. Forty-six nursing students spent 48 hours at assigned community and hospital pharmacies under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist. Self-assessment questionnaires and the grades from preceptors were analysed and reported. Students described a positive experience with high mean scores indicating self-reported learning of new medications, drug side effects, labelling of drugs, dispensing prescriptions, patients’ assessment, communication and experience working alongside interprofessional healthcare team members. This study shows that undergraduate nursing students can benefit from volunteer learning at community and hospital-based pharmacies to enhance hands-on learning of pharmacotherapeutics knowledge. Daily interactions with pharmacists, medications and patients complemented students’ learning of medications and skills acquisition. Nursing educators should explore nonconventional pedagogical approaches, such as pharmacy clinical sites, to complement students’ pharmacologic learning.

Danladi Chiroma Husaini

David Mphuthi

Joel Chiroma

Innocent Nwachukwu

Collins Ihebie

Barba Sani

Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery

Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that seeks the submission of unpublished articles on current nursing and health-related issues. It encourages debate, both theoretical and practical, on a wide range of topics that represent a variety of cross-disciplinary interests. Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is interested in attracting submissions that exhibit innovative qualitative and quantitative research methods and approaches. What is of particular interest to the journal is research that supports high-level research learning and teaching, which is fresh, exciting, analytical, critical, controversial, stimulating and creative.

The Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal that invites submissions of unpublished articles on current nursing and health-related issues. The journal encourages debate on a wide range of topics, representing various cross-disciplinary interests, both theoretical and practical. It seeks submissions that showcase innovative qualitative and quantitative research methods and approaches. Of particular interest are studies that support high-level research learning and teaching, characterized by being fresh, exciting, analytical, critical, controversial, stimulating, and creative.

《Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery》是一本学术性、同行评审的期刊，旨在征集关于当前护理和健康相关问题的未发表文章。期刊鼓励在广泛的主题上进行理论和实践的辩论，涉及多学科的兴趣。期刊特别关注展示创新的定性和定量研究方法及其应用的投稿。我们特别感兴趣的是支持高水平研究学习和教学的研究，这些研究应当是新颖、激动人心、分析性强、批判性、具有争议性、引人思考和富有创造性的。

Students’ Engagement in Learning Nursing Pharmacotherapeutics: A Self-reported Volunteer Experience

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Category	Quartile
NURSING	4