Explicating Filipino student nurses' preferences of clinical instructors' attributes: A conjoint analysis

Nursing faculty teaching characteristics as perceived by nursing students: an integrative review

“…Twenty‐nine articles were included for review. Nineteen (68%) studies were conducted in Asia , five were from North America , one was from Europe , two were from Africa and one was from Oceania , respectively.…”

“…In spite of the diversity of the tools used to identify nursing students’ perceptions of effective teaching behaviours of nursing faculty, this review identified ‘ professional competence’ as the most desirable characteristic for nursing faculty. Being professionally competent requires faculty members to be proficient in theoretical knowledge and clinical skills . This involves attributes such as demonstrating clinical skills and judgement as well as effective communication skills, having exceptional knowledge in nursing, and being a positive role model .…”

“…In the United States, teaching approaches and classroom teaching strategies were identified by nursing students as being the most vital characteristics of a nursing faculty , while, in Pakistan, the ability to effectively teach nursing students was identified as the most preferred attribute for the nursing faculty to have . In a conjoint analysis by Factor and de Guzman , selected junior and senior student nurses identified the clinical teaching skills of their faculty along with interpersonal skills as the most important nursing faculty attributes.…”

“…Interpersonal skills were the next commonly identified effective characteristics of nursing faculty (24,27,34,42,44,47,48,50,51). Being genuine, caring, empathetic, respectful, approachable and supportive have all been suggested as important dimensions of interpersonal skills (39,51,56). Of the included studies, four utilised the NCTEI as the primary tool for identifying nursing instructors' teaching behaviours (34,44,48,51).…”

Turkish Version of Nursing Students' Perception of Instructor Caring (T-NSPIC): Assessment of Reliability and Validity

“…8,9 Studies have shown that students' most preferred clinical instructor qualities are; clinical training capacity (%38, 14), followed by interpersonal relations and nursing behaviour (%33,17). 10 Moreover, students reported that instructor's caring behaviours such as flexibility, kindness, respectful attitude, are encouraging, while their unheeding and careless attitudes aroused negative feelings of exclusion, deterrence, loss of confidence, hopelessness, emotional turmoil, and anxiety. 11 This study aims to determine whether the NSPIC scale, which may help students to achieve effective clinical training and to increase instructors' level of awareness, can be adapted to Turkish language and culture and whether it is a valid tool for evaluating the perception of instructor.…”