Knowledge Embeddedness, Knowledge Sources and Clinical Knowledge Transfer: A Study of Nurse Students of a Public University in Malaysia

Past studies highlighted the importance of acquiring and using new knowledge in various organizational settings. As clinical placement activities among nurse students are exploratory in nature and involve multiple sources, it is thus interesting to explore knowledge transfer from the perspective of knowledge sources. Thus, the study explores: (1) the level of knowledge transfer from preceptor: (2) the level of knowledge transfer from patient; and (3) the relationship between knowledge embeddedness and knowledge transfer by preceptor: and patient. Data were collected from 136 nursing degree students of a public university and were analyzed using SPSS. It was found that as knowledge embeddedness decreases. the greater knowledge transfer occurs-from the preceptor and patients. The findings of this study are expected to contribute to success of current approaches taken to grow the student nurses within the Malaysia education system.