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NURSES AS CLINICAL TEACHERS: VARIABLES AFFECTING
TEACHING COMFORT AND SELF-EFFICACY
by
Victoria Marie-Louise Orton
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Victoria Marie-Louise Orton
Object Description
| Title | Nurses as clinical teachers: variables affecting teaching comfort and self-efficacy |
| Author | Orton, Victoria Marie-Louise |
| Author email | orton@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-11-15 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-02-03 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hitchcock, Maurice |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Rueda, Robert Fung, Chachi |
| Abstract | Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to examine if there was a common understanding of a good clinical teacher among nursing students and faculty. A secondary purpose was to validate a tool for developing individual prescriptions for improving the clinical teaching of nursing instructors. A third purpose was to test some common assumptions about good teaching: a) if experience in clinical teaching leads to a better praxis, b) if educational training (the most common intervention) leads to better teaching, c) if experience in teaching (other than nursing) leads to better clinical teaching, d) if the education degree status has an impact on the quality of teaching, and e) if teaching status (full or part-time) enhances clinical teaching.; Methodology: Twenty-five nursing faculty from a junior college and 215 nursing students participated in this descriptive correlational study. Nursing faculty completed identical Q-sorts from two different frames of reference, first for "myself as teacher" followed by "my ideal teacher". Students also completed identical Q-sorts from two different frames of reference, first for "my clinical teacher" followed by "my ideal teacher". Using the clinical teaching Perception Inventory (CTPI®) tool, faculty and students ranked 28 one-word behaviors along a 7-point continuum of significance, from "least like" to "most like". Using the Self-Efficacy Toward Teaching Inventory (SETTI), faculty rated their confidence in their ability to perform 48 teaching skills. Faculty also completed a demographic questionnaire.; Findings: Nursing instructors agreed with physicians on most descriptors that identified themselves as clinical teachers, and on 90% of the behaviors of the "ideal" clinical instructor. Nursing instructors and their students agreed on 80% of the behaviors of these same teachers. Nurses and their students agreed on ½ of the perceptions of the "ideal" clinical instructor. Effective clinical teachers' scores did not correlate with the predictor variables: years teaching nursing, number of educational courses completed, years teaching courses other than nursing, and biological age.; Recommendations: A prescription for educating teachers to become more effective clinical instructors includes the implementation of a faculty development program where specific learning needs and faculty readiness are assessed prior to the onset of educating faculty how to teach clinical nursing. |
| Keyword | nursing education; nurses; clinical teaching; comfort; teaching comfort; self-efficacy; teaching nursing |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m241 |
| Rights | Orton, Victoria Marie-Louise |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Orton-20070203 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Orton-20070203.pdf |
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| Full text | NURSES AS CLINICAL TEACHERS: VARIABLES AFFECTING TEACHING COMFORT AND SELF-EFFICACY by Victoria Marie-Louise Orton A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2007 Copyright 2007 Victoria Marie-Louise Orton |
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