摘要
Objectives:Clinical education and experience in the clinical environment play an important role in shaping the clinical experience.Effective clinical teaching improves the clinical practice of the nursing trainees which in turn improves the quality of patient care.It mandates for the clinical instructor with desired qualities,to have a positive influence in clinical education.This study examined nurse trainees'perceptions of clinical instructor characteristics.Methods:The current study was conducted in a multi-cultural tertiary setting using a cross-sectional descriptive design.Using convenience sampling,302 trainees were chosen as participants for the study,and there were 296 respondents.The data were collected from the participants using the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory(NCTEI)tool.Results:The findings of the study revealed that the clinical instructors have scored high in personality(scoring percentage=84.0%)and relatively low in teaching ability(scoring percentage=81.3%).Also,the overall perception was almost the same among all the trainees though there was a slight variation in their rating of each dimension.Conclusions:Nursing trainees indicated the instructors as having good personality and relatively low teaching ability.This mandates the clinical instructors in the clinical environment to empower themselves in this area of improvement.This helps the teaching institutions to consider all the domains of effective clinical instructor characteristics while recruitment and also organize programs giving emphasis on building and developing these characteristics to create effective instructors.
目的临床环境中的临床教学和体验对实习生获取临床经验具有重要作用。有效的临床教学可提高护理实习生的临床实践能力,进而提高患者护理质量。这要求临床教师具备一定的素质,在临床教学中发挥积极的作用。本研究旨在探讨护理实习生对临床带教特征的感知。方法采用横断面描述性设计,在一所多元文化三级医疗机构进行本研究。采用方便抽样方法,选取302名实习生作为研究对象,共296名完成问卷调查。采用护理临床教师效能量表(Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory,NCTEI)进行资料收集。结果本研究发现临床带教教师具有较高的人际关系水平(得分率84.0%)和相对较弱的教学能力(得分率81.3%)。各类实习者的总体感觉较为一致,尽管他们对每个维度的评价略有不同。结论护理实习生们认为临床带教教师表现出良好的人际关系水平和相对较弱的教学能力。提示教学医院在聘用临床带教教师时考虑其带教有效行为特征的各方面,组织着重建立和发展这些特征的项目,以培养有效的临床带教教师。
基金
The study was supported by a grant from the research center at King Fahad Medical City under RFA:018-010 and this didn't influence the results of the study.
作者简介
Corresponding author:Mohamad Omar Hababeh,Nursing Education Administration,King Fahad Medical City,Riyadh,P.O Box 59046,11525,Saudi Arabia,E-mail addresses:mhababeh@kfmc.med.sa;Diana Selvamony Lalithabai,dlalithabai@kfmc.med.sa
