Jordanian undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of effective clinical teachers

Clinical teaching is a dynamic process that occurs in a variety of sociocultural contexts. The quality of student–teacher interaction in the clinical field can either facilitate or hinder the students’ learning in the clinical area. This paper presents the results of a study to explore Jordanian undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of effective clinical teacher characteristics. The results showed that overall, the nursing students rated the professional competence of the clinical teacher as the most important characteristic, which when compared to the Western population was different. When male and female nursing students’ perceptions were compared, no significant differences were found. However, responses of nursing students from the three academic years differed significantly in that second-year students rated the clinical teachers’ relationship with students as most important and fourth-year students rated personal qualities of the clinical teachers as most important. The results were significant in that they were congruent with the students’ level of education and most importantly, their cultural beliefs and values about education.     

Nepalese undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of the clinical learning environment,supervision and nurse teachers: A questionnaire survey

BackgroundClinical practice enables nursing students to acquire essential professional skills, but little is known about nursing students' perceptions of the clinical learning environment (CLE) in Nepal.ObjectivesTo examine Nepalese nursing students' perceptions regarding the CLE and supervision.DesignA cross-sectional questionnaire design was used.SettingsGovernment and private hospitals in Nepal where the undergraduate nursing college students undertook their clinical practice.ParticipantsStudents with clinical practice experience were recruited from years 2–4 of the B.Sc. nursing program in Nepal (n = 350). The final sample comprised 263 students.MethodsA self-administered questionnaire including demographic characteristics, latest clinical practice site, and general satisfaction was administered February–March 2014. The previously validated Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher evaluation scale was used in the questionnaire. The analytical approach used exploratory factor analysis, assessments of the scale and sub-dimension reliability, correlations of factors between scale sub-dimensions, and multiple regression analysis.ResultsStudents' practicum satisfaction level at government hospitals was significantly higher than those at private hospitals (p < 0.0001). Five factors explained 85.7% of the variance, with minor factorial structure differences compared with the original scale. Reliability was confirmed (Cronbach's alpha = 0.93 for total scale, 0.76–0.92 for sub-dimensions). Inter-correlations between the five original sub-dimensions were 0.27–0.68 (p < 0.0001). Students undertaking their practicum in private hospitals evaluated their clinical placements significantly more negatively on most sub-dimensions than those in government hospitals. Multiple regression analysis revealed a significant positive relationship between satisfaction and pedagogical atmosphere (p < 0.0001).ConclusionThis is the first study to investigate nursing students' perceptions of the CLE in undergraduate nursing programs in Nepal. Students were satisfied with the CLE overall, but satisfaction varied by practicum hospital sector. The most influential factor explaining satisfaction was pedagogical atmosphere.     

Faculty and student perceptions of effective clinical teachers

The following study has been conducted to discover the characteristics of an effective clinical teacher as described by faculty and students in a selected baccalaureate school of nursing. Through determination of these characteristics, clinical teachers can improve their teaching methodology and provide a more effective learning environment for the learner. The identification of these characteristics also has implications for graduate nursing education, as clinical teachers are being prepared in this arena to enter the teaching environment. Administrators should consider utilization of these characteristics for teacher evaluation purposes. Nursing educators must attempt to bridge the gap between what educators and students perceive as characteristics of the effective clinical teacher. The ultimate goal to be achieved from identification of effective clinical teacher characteristics, as determined in this study, is improvement in clinical teaching.     

Jordanian nursing students' knowledge of osteoporosis

The aim of this study was to explore baccalaureate nursing students' knowledge of osteoporosis for beginning practice in the community. A cross-sectional study design was used. Students were selected by convenience sampling ( n  = 85) from one University in Jordan in the final of 4 years. Students were asked to complete a 23-item-knowledge questionnaire based on two earlier published studies of osteoporosis. Results indicated poor level of knowledge of osteoporosis on all dimensions: prevention (11 items) 62.6%; SD 14.2; general (5 items) 59.5%; SD 20.6; and the pathophysiology (7 items) 39.6%; SD 15.6, and an overall mean grade of 54.9%; SD 10.3. This result provides information that graduating nursing students have limited knowledge to undertake the role of health promotion and disease prevention in the community.     

Undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of their clinical learning environment

The clinical learning environment (CLE) is an interactive network of forces influencing student learning outcomes in the clinical setting. This study used mixed methods to identify factors characterizing students' perceptions of the CLE. The sample consisted of 229 undergraduate students in the second or third year of their biophysical nursing strand. The five subscales of the Clinical Learning Environment Scale, 'Staff-student relationships', 'nurse manager commitment', 'patient relationships', 'student satisfaction' and 'hierarchy and ritual', were supported by qualitative data obtained from student interviews. Interpersonal relationships between the participants in the CLE were crucial to the development of a positive learning environment. Student satisfaction with the CLE was both a result of, and influential in creation, a positive learning environment. Nurse educators, clinical venues, and all others participating in the undergraduate nursing students' clinical education, must colloborate in order to crate a CLE which promotes the development of well-educated registered nurses capable of providing safe, cost-effective patient care.     

Typology of undergraduate nursing students' unsafe clinical practices: Q-methodology

Undergraduate nursing students, as members of the health care team, must uphold patient safety as a professional and moral obligation during their clinical learning experiences. To address this imperative, in a humanistic paradigm, students engage in critical appraisal of self as a developing practitioner. Using Q-methodology, this study describes undergraduate nursing students' subjective understanding of unsafe clinical practices, and results revealed a typology of five groups of unsafe students. The results showed four discrete groups of students at risk for unsafe clinical practices-vulnerable, unprepared, unknowing, and distanced students. Overall, a consensus viewpoint described the presence of the displaced student as the greatest safety risk. Use of this typology as an assessment guide may help students and educators cooperatively create and maintain a culture of safety while developing competent novice nurses.     

Nursing students' and clinical educators' perceptions of characteristics of effective clinical educators in an Australian university school of nursing

BACKGROUND: This study is a replication of research undertaken by Mogan and Knox in 1987, which investigated and described characteristics of 'best' and 'worst' clinical educators. They developed and used an instrument known as the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI), a 48 item checklist that describes discrete characteristics clustered into five subscales or categories: teaching ability; interpersonal relationships, personality traits, nursing competence and evaluation. The tool has since been used in several countries including Greece, Hong Kong, Israel and North America and is the instrument most frequently used to identify effective clinical teaching characteristics of clinical educators. AIM: The aim of the present study was to administer the NCTEI to undergraduate nursing students and clinical educators in a school of nursing at an Australian university to explore the perceived characteristics of effective clinical educators as rated by students and educators, and the significant differences and commonalities between these perceptions. FINDINGS: Results indicate that the category of Interpersonal Relationships was the most highly valued characteristic rated by both Australian students and clinical educators, and both groups (students and educators) ranked the subset of personality as the lowest amongst five categories. In common with Mogan and Knox, this study found that students who had not been exposed to real clinical situations prior to commencing nursing studies ranked items related to interpersonal relationships more highly than students who had previous nursing experience. Although there were no statistically significant differences in the two groups, students were more concerned with evaluation while clinical educators were more concerned with nursing competence. CONCLUSION: This study is the first research to be reported in Australia, which has simultaneously compared both students' and educators' perceptions and the first to replicate Mogan and Knox's seminal work. Findings point to the need for clinical educators to value interpersonal relationships with students as well as clinical competence.     

Psychiatric nurses and undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of preceptorship in the mental health setting

The importance of clinical education for nursing is widely acknowledged and considerable effort has been invested into identifying the most effective models. Psychiatric nursing has the additional imperative of increasing recruitment into the field. While clinical experience has been found to influence nursing students' attitudes towards psychiatric nursing and people experiencing a mental illness, little attention has been paid towards the factors that influence these outcomes. This study addresses the question, what is the experience of preceptorship for mental health nurses and undergraduate nursing students' in the mental health setting? An examination of the interactions within this model and the development of a substantive theory are facilitated by utilising the qualitative methodological approach, grounded theory. Findings indicate that psychiatric nurse preceptors seek to accomplish connectedness in the preceptorship relationship, through overcoming fear and other misconceptions. In addition, a number of factors emerged where commonality exists between the experiences of mental health nurse preceptors andthe nursing students. These included the need to manage the reconciling of difference between general acute health and mental health settings, the challenge for both groups to address student fear and preconceived ideas of mental illness and the need of preceptors to 'protect' the students.     

A qualitative study of physiotherapy final year undergraduate students' perceptions of clinical reasoning

Clinical reasoning is a fundamental component of physiotherapists' clinical competence. However research examining how clinical reasoning is understood and developed in physiotherapy undergraduate courses is limited, particularly from the student's perspective. The aim of this study was to explore the current understanding of clinical reasoning held by final year undergraduate students, and how it is represented in the undergraduate musculoskeletal curriculum in Portugal. A qualitative research approach involving final year undergraduate students' from four different physiotherapy programmes was used. A total of 28 students participated in four focus group discussions, which were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed thematically.Four themes were identified: 1) an instrumental process; 2) a clinician centred process; 3) a knowledge dependent process; 4) a context dependent process. Findings of this study suggest that the primary purpose of clinical reasoning was to assist musculoskeletal physiotherapists in the diagnosis and treatment of clinical problems, and to facilitate efficient management of individual practices. The insights into the promotion of clinical reasoning in undergraduate musculoskeletal curricula may have important implications for curriculum design, teaching and learning strategies, and graduation profile in physiotherapy undergraduate courses.     

应用客观结构化临床考试评价护理本科毕业生的临床能力

目的 采用客观结构化临床考试(objective structured clinical examination,OSCE)评价护理本科毕业生的临床能力.方法 设置OSCE考站,对2010届护理本科145名毕业生进行考核和成绩分析.结果 在本次考试中毕业生成绩分布均匀,分数在合理范围内,考试的信度及效度较好.结论 OSCE能够客观地反映毕业生的临床能力,但其考站的设置有待于进一步完善.     

临床护理教师有效教学行为的模式构建

本文对1所省级教学医院368名护生的实习感想进行了质性归纳性分析。以实习护生在实习感想中的描述为文字资料,抽出了给护生心理带来良性影响的临床护理教师的教学行为,共获取了3个类概念和13个种概念。质性研究表明临床护理教师的教学行为可刺激护生产生利于学习、成长的良性心理;护理教师可有意识地实施带教行为,为护生提供一个高品质的实习环境。     

临床学习环境对本科护生专业承诺的影响

目的探讨临床学习环境对本科护生专业承诺的影响。方法对北京地区9所三级甲等综合医院实习的204名本科护生在实习前和实习后1个月末发放护理专业承诺量表,实习后1个月末同时发放临床学习环境评价问卷。结果本科护生对临床学习环境评价总均分为(3.23±0.75)分。实习前及实习后1个月末的专业承诺总均分分别为(2.58±0.62)分和(2.78±0.65)分,差异具有统计学意义(P0.01)。临床学习环境评价较好与评价较差的本科护生专业承诺总均分分别为(3.02±0.64)分和(2.56±0.58)分,差异具有统计学意义(P0.01)。结论临床学习环境对本科护生专业承诺有一定影响,临床学习环境评价越好,本科护生专业承诺越高。     

Simulated clinical experience: nursing students' perceptions and the educators' role

Simulation with high-fidelity technology is an innovative and effective teaching strategy to address increasing student enrollment, faculty shortages, and limited clinical sites. This interactive learning method allows the educator to focus on desired content and teach multiple objectives. This study examines students' perceptions of a preterm labor simulated clinical experience as a method of instruction, emphasizing the importance of the educators' role in promoting positive student outcomes.     

A transcultural study of Jordanian nursing students' care encounters within the context of clinical education

Clinical education is an integral part of nursing education. Clinical teachers are the vital link in this teaching-learning process. The quality and quantity of student-teacher interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hinder students' learning. This paper presents a part of a larger study that discovered, described, explained and compared Australian and Jordanian nursing students' caring and non-caring encounters with their clinical teachers within the context of clinical education. The study was guided by Leininger's theory of culture care universality and diversity and Leininger's ethnonursing research method was utilised. The informants consisted of 12 key informants and 35 general informants. Three major themes emerged from the analysis of the data: (1) clinical teacher's caring behaviours; (2) student-teacher caring encounters; and (3) caring encounter consequences. Under these themes, care constructs emerged which gave light to the Jordanian nursing students' care meanings, expressions and values within their cultural environment, social structures and world view. The overall findings revealed that Jordanian nursing students found their clinical experiences as beneficial when their encounters with the clinical teacher were conducted through mothering, translating, sustaining, negotiating and transforming processes.     

护理本科实习生核心能力自评与他评的比较研究

目的分析护理本科实习生核心能力学生自我评价和带教教师对其评价的一致性和差异性。方法采用中国注册护士核心能力量表对226名护理本科实习生及其带教师进行问卷调查。结果护理本科实习生核心能力自评和他评各维度得分排序一致,核心能力总均分和伦理/法律实践、人际关系、领导能力、专业发展、临床护理维度自评得分低于他评得分(P<0.05)。结论护理本科实习生核心能力自评和他评结果有差异,建议护理院校在评价中采用自评与他评相结合的方式,以便获得更为精确、可信的结论。