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Selection and development of tools [Session]

Abstract

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Globally, nursing programs partner with healthcare institutions such as hospitals to provide practice settings for baccalaureate nursing students. In one model, full time faculty or adjunct faculty are employed by academic institutions to teach in the clinical setting. In another model, the healthcare institution such as a hospital provides nurses to function as the clinical instructor. With the nursing faculty shortage in the USA and across the globe, an approach to transforming practice may be to decrease the need for full time faculty employed by the academic setting to teach clinicals and rely more on healthcare institution partners to provide experienced nurses who work in the setting to teach the clinicals. This transformation in practice leads to the question, does the clinical educator's work role perspective differ based on the partnership framework under which the instructor is employed (i.e., primary employer is an educational institution versus health facility)? Purpose: To develop a tool to measure clinical educator perspectives of work roles and compare educator perspectives based on primary employer, hospital-based facility compared to university-based facility.

Author Details

Sharon M. Jones, RN, CNE; Cheryl Zlotnick, RN; Ainat Koren, RN; Anya Bostian Peters, RN, CNE; Cheryl F. Saffer, RN, NE-BC; Malvin Torsvik, RN; Dalit Wilhelm, RN

Sigma Membership

Alpha

Lead Author Affiliation

Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana, USA

Type

Presentation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Instrument Development, Role Perceptions, Clinical Education

Conference Name

Nursing Education Research Conference 2016

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International,National League for Nursing

Conference Location

Washington, DC, USA

Conference Year

2016

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Development of a tool to assess clinical educator role perceptions

Washington, DC, USA

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Globally, nursing programs partner with healthcare institutions such as hospitals to provide practice settings for baccalaureate nursing students. In one model, full time faculty or adjunct faculty are employed by academic institutions to teach in the clinical setting. In another model, the healthcare institution such as a hospital provides nurses to function as the clinical instructor. With the nursing faculty shortage in the USA and across the globe, an approach to transforming practice may be to decrease the need for full time faculty employed by the academic setting to teach clinicals and rely more on healthcare institution partners to provide experienced nurses who work in the setting to teach the clinicals. This transformation in practice leads to the question, does the clinical educator's work role perspective differ based on the partnership framework under which the instructor is employed (i.e., primary employer is an educational institution versus health facility)? Purpose: To develop a tool to measure clinical educator perspectives of work roles and compare educator perspectives based on primary employer, hospital-based facility compared to university-based facility.