A Study on Clinical Teaching Method in Nursing Education

-Focusing on Teaching Method of Touching-

Abstract

The purpose of this study is the development of effective clinical teaching methods of nursing education using touching in hospital nursing care. The clinical teaching-learning process was designed based on the Steinaker, N. W. & R. Bell's experiential learning model (1979), in which teaching-learning process was divided into five steps-exposure, participation, identification, internalization, and dissemination.
Three hypotheses were postulated as follows:
1-1. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in nursing care will make them conscious of the efficiency of touching.
1-2. Nursing students will grasp the efficiency of their nursing action by “cause and effect” relations.
2-0. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in their nursing care will allay and soften their anxiety and tension toward such nursing practices.
3-0. Nursing intervention by touching will heighten the clinical judgement ability of nursing students.
The teaching-learning plan was carried out in a nursing school in Kitakyushu-shi. Fifteen nursing students studied by this plan. The results was as follows:
a. Hypotheses 1-1, 1-2, 2-0, were confirmed.
b. Hypothesis 3-0, was not confirmed.