ABSTRACT
Background and purpose: There are many studies about nursing clinical settings and their problems, but the teaching style of teachers on the bedside has not been studied as a whole. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess, describe and interpret nursing trainers' perceptions of the teaching style in clinical settings
Methods and Materials: The grounded theory approach was used to conduct this study. Fifteen nursing teachers were interviewed individually in 2006-2007. The interview protocols were tape-recorded and later transcribed verbatim. The transcriptions were analyzed using Strauss and Corbin's method
Results: Three major themes and 12 sub-themes emerged from the study data which portray the clinical teaching styles of the nursing teachers. The main themes are multiple styles in teaching, nature of clinical teaching, control and adaptation in the educational atmosphere and multiplicity in teaching style. Individualized styles were observable across teachers, but they varied across situations, type of skills [content], educational environment and facilities, levels of the learners, and the control and accommodation of teachers with the teaching atmosphere
Conclusion: Although teaching style is a complex phenomenon, but this study has helped emerge some of the rules and principles of clinical training of nurses
ABSTRACT
Historically, comfort has been an optimal outcome in caring of hospital patients though, the concept of comfort from patients perspective is rarely assessed. The aim of this study was to explore hospitalized Medical-Surgical patients experiences and perceptions regarding of comfort and discomfort. A qualitative approach using grounded theory was adopted in this study. The data collected by semi-structured interviews and participants' observation, from a purposive sample of 31 medical-surgical patients, with 11 patients accompanied relatives who were subjected to questions and constant comparative analysis. This study was conducted in five large teaching and semi-private hospitals in Iran. Date analysis covered a number of themes obviously included discomfort. In fact, experiencing discomfort was so persistent in the data, that it formed several categories including [physical, psychosocial and environmental discomfort]. Self help and organizing of informal caring web, and seeking help from others, were the participants' main strategies to deal with discomfort. The finding indicated that hospitalization of patients is not always necessarily equivalent to effective deal with caring and therapeutic needs. Patients experience a lot of distress related to hospital's policies, regulations and priorities. Patients can have active role for discomfort management. In addition, it is highlited the roles of patients' relative and care-givers in hospitals. Therefore, without cooperation of care-givers [patients' relatives], the quality of nursing care could be disturbed seriously