Effect of nursing teaching competition to improve nurses' teaching ability

Abstract

Objective To study the effect of nursing teaching competition to improve nurses' teaching ability.Methods Totals of 120 clinical teaching nurses from department of internal medicine and department of surgery were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group,each with 60 cases.Both groups received regular teaching training and the observation group received teaching competition once a month in addition.Teaching effect was evaluated by both teaching nurses and student nurses at the end of internship.Results Student nurses' satisfaction rates of teachers' knowledge level,professional quality,teaching methods,communication ability and teaching attitude were respectively 92.7％,95.3％,94.0％,93.3％ and 94.7％,all higher than 80.0％,86.7％,80.0％,84.0％ and 78.7％ in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant (x2 =10.198 7,6.878 3,12.997 4,6.501 5,16.615 4,respectively; P ＜ 0.01).Charge nurses' evaluation of student nurses' communication ability,quality of carefulness while alone,health education ability,professional dedication and ability to handle emergency were higher in the observation group than in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant (x2 =5.555 6,16.770 2,27.272 7,0.724 6,12.000 0,respectively; P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions Nursing teaching competition can greatly improve nurses' ability of clinical teaching,which plays a decisive role to improve student nurses' comprehensive quality. Key words: Nurse; Teaching competition; Teaching ability; Student nurses' comprehensive quality