The major findings were as follows:
1. Average clinical career of all clinical instructors has been found 3years and average career of education has been found 7 years and 6 months.
The hours of clinical practice instruction of individual instruct...
The major findings were as follows:
1. Average clinical career of all clinical instructors has been found 3years and average career of education has been found 7 years and 6 months.
The hours of clinical practice instruction of individual instructor has been found 3-4 hours a day in 91 persons (55.2 %) out of 165 persons.
The instruction frequency of individual instructor has been 3-4 times in the monthly average in 64 persons (38.8 %) out of 165 persons.
At 14 junior nursing colleges, the professor in charge and consultation with the concerned at the hospital, respective college adminstrators together participated in the planning of clinical nursing practice (44 %).
In 34.4 % of-junior nursing colleges, the clinical instructors have been professors in charge, head nurses, staff nurses, and clinical instructors.
In 219 % of junior nursing colleges, the clinical evaluators have been professors in charge, head nurses, clinical instructors.
In evaluation method 9 colleges (28.2 %) have used testing, reports, attendance, evaluation tools, conferences.
2. Looking at the levels of attitude about problems in clinical performance evaluation, the 60.0 % of the professors recognized problems in clinical performance evaluation:
The largest problem among 15 items in clinical performance evaluation was the differences in clinical performance evaluation score according to the clinical area. Another problems were subjective evaluation, lack of concern about clinical performance, reliability and validity of clinical performance tool, a criterion of grading according to clinical performance quality.
3. Evaluation tool of clinical performance consists of 35 items including six subscales: Nursing ethics (6 items), Basic nursing skills (5 items), Management of materials (3 items), Interpersonal relations (3 items), Professional development (3 items), Client's health education (5 items), Planning/evaluation (10 items)..
All Evaluation tool items are shown to be highly reliable.
The Evaluation tool was found to be suitable for nursing student's clinical performance evaluation as well as a useful research tool.
In conclusion, to improve and develop the appropriate evaluation of student's clinical nursing performance, the following factors will be necessary.
Evaluation's criteria of clinical performance evaluation should be established and the supporting organization should be strengthened.