A situation study about teacher preparation for nursing undergraduates in clinical field in Shandong Province / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To know the situation of teaching and teacher preparation for nursing under-graduates, and then reference to reasonable clinical teaching mode. Methods Investigated clinical pre-ceptors from 30 hospitals by serf-designed questionnair to know their basic situation, and then investigated nursing undergruaduates who had enter school in 2004 to know their evaluation about their preceptors in the aspect of basic quality. Results In professional tides, most of the teachers are nurse-in-charge, and have been working over 10 years, but qualification certificates levels were low and 50% of them teaching. Experience was short and not qualified to the popurse of bachelors degree, nurse-in-charge and more than five years nursing experience. The ratio in thesis writing, teaching training and awards are rather low. There were teaching assessment from students, mainly in teaching and research initiative. Conclusions The qualities of nursing teachers should be defined and should be established standard teaching training system and qualification organization, the capabilities of teaching and research innovations should be improved.