A COMPARISON OF THE PERFORMANCE OF UNDERGRADUATE CLINICAL PRECEPTORS AND FACULTY CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS AS PERCEIVED BY SENIOR BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Higher.
Description: This study explored senior baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of the frequency of prescribed role performance of clinical teachers as performed by clinical preceptors in comparison with the same performance by traditional faculty clinical instructors. The four prescribed role performance categories studied were: (1) Role Model; (2) Designer of Instruction; (3) Resource Person; and (4) Supervisor. The clinical setting for the respondents' focus was the adult medical-surgical nursing unit.

A fifty-two item structured questionnaire was developed for identifying the students' perceptions of the frequency of prescribed role performance by clinical preceptors or by faculty clinical instructors. It was administered to senior nursing students from nine accredited baccalaureate schools of nursing in the greater New York metropolitan area. The study sample consisted of 306: 155 students interacting with clincal preceptors; 151 students interacting with faculty clinical instructors.

The purposes for undertaking the investigation were to describe the student's perceptions of: (1) the frequency of prescribed role performance of undergraduate clinical preceptors; (2) the frequency of prescribed role performance of undergraduate faculty clinical instructors; and (3) the differences in the frequency of prescribed role performance which existed between the two groups.

This study demonstrated that both clinical preceptors and traditional faculty clinical instructors assigned to adult medical-surgical nursing units are perceived by senior baccalaureate nursing students as performing in the prescribed roles of the clinical teacher as defined for the study. This study further documents the perceptions of the surveyed nursing students that clinical preceptors consistently perform in the prescribed four roles of the clinical teacher more frequently than do the faculty clinical instructors. This conclusion implies that students perceive clinical preceptors to be performing as clinical teachers.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-09, Section: B, page: 3671.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1988.

School code: 0055.