The Influence of Bedside Teaching and Interpersonal Intelligence Upon Students’ Therapeutic Communication Competence in Midwifery Diploma III Program of Mitra Ria Husada School of Health Sciences (STIKes) Cibubur

Abstract

Education is a process that contains objectives and objects. This also applies to midwifery education. The midwifery competencies to achieve are comprised of knowledge, skills and behaviors in implementing safe and responsible midwifery practices in various health care settings. This research was conducted on the therapeutic communication competence in three domains, namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains on the students of Midwifery D-III Program of Mitra RIA Husada School of Health Sciences. The learning method was limited to bedside teaching method, coaching method and demonstration. Bedside teaching method is a teaching method which is conducted beside a client’s bed, covering the learning of the client's condition and nursing care needed by the client. Coaching method is a technique of using a verbal instruction directly involving a coach who has knowledge of how to trigger the expected behavior and what is needed in an effort to achieve the desired behavior. Demonstration is the learning method used by telling and demonstrating the steps in carrying out a certain task. The method used in this research was the experimental method with the treatment design by level 3 x 2. The sample in this research was 24 students. The data analysis technique in this research was variance analysis (ANAVA). The conclusions of this research were: (1) there was increased therapeutic communication competence among students of Midwifery D-III Program of Mitra RIA Husada School of Health Sciences taught by bedside teaching method and have high interpersonal intelligence with students taught by coaching method and have high interpersonal intelligence, (2) to improve therapeutic communication competence of those with high interpersonal intelligence, coaching method was more appropriate. Thus, the lecturers are recommended to use coaching method in therapeutic communication courses, (3) to improve the result of therapeutic communication competence of those having low interpersonal intelligence, the bedside teaching method was more appropriate, (4) to improve the result of therapeutic communication competence of those having low interpersonal intelligence, the coaching method was the more precise method.