Abstract

Nursing student's clinical competence including psychomotor skills, attitude, values, and beliefs of professional practices depend on the quality of clinical instruction given by their preceptors in clinical settings. The main objective was to assess the Tanzanian clinical instructors' teaching abilities and attitude towards the clinical teaching and guidance of nurse students at clinical areas. It was a cross-sectional study design with quantitative approach.
A total of 277 clinical instructors were sampled and voluntarily participated in this study. Data were obtained through semi-structured questionnaires. The analysis was carried out by the Statistical Product of Social Solution (SPSS) version 20. Findings indicated that none of the clinical instructors reported to pass through any short course of clinical teaching or use a clinical guideline for teaching nurse students at the clinical area (0.0%). Clinical instructors recruited as full-time who Employees could more likely develop a positive attitude towards clinical teaching and guidance of nurse students at clinical areas (AOR = 1.802, pClinical teaching experience (pvii
whereas, the more clinical instructors advance their education level and stay longer at work could predict positive attitude and good clinical teaching abilities of nurse students at the clinical area. There is a need to design, develop and implement clinical instructor courses as well as a clinical guideline which can help produce qualified clinical instructors and thus promote the quality of clinical teaching of nurse students at clinical areas.

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Rehema L. Mligo

Author Details

Rehema L. Mligo, RN

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Thesis

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Cross-Sectional

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Nursing Student Clinical Competence, Nursing Education, Nursing Instruction, Tanzanian Nursing

Advisors

Kibusi, S.;Ngowi, A.

Degree

Master's

Degree Grantor

University of Dodoma

Degree Year

2017

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Date of Issue

2018-07-03

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