TABLE 3.

Inclusion criteria and justification.

Inclusion criteria	Justification
Nurse educators
Registered with SANC as a nurse educator. A minimum of 1 year experience as an educator.	Nurse educators are directly involved in teaching and learning To ascertain that such nurse educator understands the teaching and learning processes at the selected institution
Nursing students
Enrolled for 2021 academic year. Pursuing SANC-R425 or SANC-R171 qualifications	To ensure that information received is current For inclusion of all levels, both SANC-R425 and SANC-R171 nursing programmes offered from North West public nursing college are included as they are running parallel because one (SANC-R425) is being phased out, whereas the other one (SANC-R171) is phasing in.

SANC, South African Nursing Council.