Abstract

The United States faces a critical shortage of full-time registered nurses, which is directly affected by the shortage of nurse educators. Many schools of nursing are already seeing the impact as qualified program applicants are being turned away due to the lack of qualified educators available to teach them. The trend has become to employ increasing numbers of part-time faculty who have a clinical focus in their education. There is much debate about the clinical teaching effectiveness of part-time faculty. One way to assess quality of education is to assess teacher effectiveness. The purpose of this quantitative, descriptive, study was to examine student and faculty perceptions of the clinical teaching effectiveness of part-time clinical nursing faculty as compared to fulltime clinical nursing faculty. The study also identified the characteristics of effective clinical teachers as perceived by students, part-time clinical nursing faculty, and full-time clinical nursing faculty.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3508821; ProQuest document ID: 1018550088. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Kimberly L. De Santis, PhD, MS, BSN, RN

Sigma Membership

Theta Tau

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Education, Clinical Nursing Faculty, Effective Clinical Teachers

Advisor

Cristie McClendon

Second Advisor

Kathleen Hargiss

Third Advisor

Eric Parks

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Capella University

Degree Year

2012

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2023-10-23

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