An exploratory study on practical demonstrative teaching of nursing procedures at university of nursing Yangon, 2004.

ABSTRACT

An exploratory study on practical demonstrative teaching (PDT) of nursing procedures (NP) was undertaken to identify the problems faced by teaching staff and students in the skill laboratory of Department Fundamental Nursing, university of Nursing, Yangon in 2004. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used after pilot study. Three teaching staff and ten first-year nursing students were purposively selected for In-depth Interview for qualitative assessment of their feelings. Self-administered structured questionnaire, was used to determine experience of fifty randomly selected students. Performance ability test was undertaken among thirty students by checklist. It was found that teaching staff were not satisfied with the present teaching method. Feelings of students were disregarded so that it should have more chances for the students to practice properly in the skill laboratory. By doing so they would be more competent in performing clinical practice. There would be some issues both in clinical practice and examinations for students. It was found that mean score of student's performance was 33.3 which was less than the standard one i.e. 50. These findings would be applied as a baseline for further action research for the improvement of PDT of nursing procedures.