Yu-Wen Lin
Taipei medical College, Taiwan
Title: The investigation of teaching effectiveness over clinical nursing preceptors.
Biography
Biography: Yu-Wen Lin
Abstract
Objectives:
The purposes of this study were to examine the degree of teaching effectiveness among clinical nursing preceptors and to explore the relationship of teaching effectiveness between preceptors’ self-evaluation and new nurses’ evaluation.
Methods:
The Teaching Effectiveness Questionnaire was used to understand the extent of teaching effectiveness from both clinical nursing preceptors’ and new nurses’ perspectives. This questionnaire included five sub-scales: Maturity of Personal Characteristics, Proficiency of Professional Knowledge, Effectiveness of Teaching Strategies, Harmony of Interpersonal Relationships, and Objectivity of Teaching Evaluation. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were utilized.
Results:
The results of the research are as follows: (1) The teaching effectiveness was above average rated by both clinical nursing preceptors and new nurse. Harmonious Interpersonal Relationship was rated the highest and Effective Teaching Strategies the lowest. (2) Overall clinical nursing preceptors’ self-evaluation on teaching effectiveness was significantly correlated with new staff nurses’ evaluation on preceptor teaching effectiveness in the positive direction.
Conclusions:
The participants rated teaching effectiveness high in general, and valued having harmonious interpersonal relationship the most. Due to the Effective Teaching Strategies sub-scale scores of teaching effectiveness were low, a few implications can be considered. These include: to promote continuing education on teaching strategies, and to set up peer support network for preceptors to exchange their feedback and experience.