Use and Effect Motivation Factors by Nursing Students for Productive Learning: Case of Nursing Schools in Buea Health District, South West Region, Cameroon

The use and effects of motivational factors on nursing students' learning by the students themselves from three schools in the Buea Health District considered three approaches of motivation of students by educators. These three factors were: use of instructional material, teaching styles and motivational speaking. The choice of these three was informed by the fact that English is not a mother tongue language but the language of instruction in all the schools, and the fact that other aspects of motivation like: likeness for the profession, classroom environment, interest in the subject matter, recreational activities, assessment and feedback had been studied and results being used by educators already to motivate nursing students in the area The study focused on questions on the factors to assessed whether the students were motivated or could be motivated by the factors It was a cross sectional survey of students randomly selected from thr three schools of nursing in the Buea health district that a good population of student. A total of 208 students were involved in the study and the questions were analysed using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, with the opinions of the students assessed using the Likert scale of strongly disagree, disagree, agree and strongly agree. The study established that: instructional materials and teaching styles have absolutely positive influence on learning; while motivational speaking has a weak positive influence on learning. The study concludes that when the components of motivational strategies are adequately used, nursing students' interest in learning is aroused, sustained and improved. Hence, nurse teachers/ educators should be trained on the adequate use of motivational strategies, in order to foster learning in nursing students.