Perception of Nursing Students Regarding Quality Clinical Teaching in the Government College of Nursing Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Introduction: Quality clinical teaching is the heart beat of nursing profession. A good Clinical teaching environment influences on nursing students learning outcome. The good clinical environment enhances the satisfaction and competence of nursing students in learning process(Sabog, Carantos, & David, 2015). Student nurses were performing some wrong practices in Government hospital Lahore. Study was conducted to assess the perception of nursing students regarding clinical teaching.Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in the Government College of Nursing Lahore. Total 148 female nursing students’ (General Nursing and Midwifery students) participates in the research age group of 18-37 years.Results: Statistical Analysis showed that clinical teachers, 62.8% never encouraged the students for questions and discussions and only 22.7% students were agreed with the clinical learning environment. This study showed that 27.0% students achieved opportunities for performance in the clinical learning environment. For age of participants and Physical Aspects of the Teaching Environment -.163 with p value of .047, Only Physical Aspects of the Teaching Environment had a statistically significance relationship. For level of program Only Teaching Skills of the Clinical Teachers and Physical Aspects of the Teaching Environment had a statistically significance relationship.(p<.001) and for level of education of respondents only Teaching Skills of the Clinical Teachers and Physical Aspects of the Teaching Environment had a statistically significance relationship.(P< .001).Conclusion: This study was designed to evaluate the perception of nursing student regarding quality clinical teaching in the Government College of Nursing Lahore, female students were involved as well as the students were selected from different class to identify the differences of their performance. Study revealed that teaching skills of the clinical teachers are very poor. Student nurses were not satisfied with the clinical learning environment and their performances were not good in the Government Hospital Lahore.

Keywords: Quality clinical teaching, Evaluation of Quality Clinical Teaching, Students Clinical Performance.