Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify measures and practices that the nursing faculty take for medical accident prevention during the nursing clinical practicum and also discuss their aspects. The instrument packets were including a questionnaire consisting of open-ended question as asking measures and practices for medical accident prevention by the nursing faculty and close-ended question as asking faculty's characteristics. The questionnaire was mailed to 741 nursing faculty in basic nursing educational program. 313 nursing faculty returned questionnaires. The descriptions of 305 open-ended question respondents were analyzed by a content analysis method for nursing education based on Berelson's method. As the result, 40 categories of were formed. Those were such as "Checking a student's plan/readiness before support their nursing practice, and requiring correction/supplement if necessary", "Observing student's practice and executing measure of medical accident prevention if necessary", and "Constructing a teaching structure with consideration of medical accident prevention by collaboration of nursing faculty and clinical instructors". The agreement rates of category classification based on the formula of Scott, W. A. were 83.5% and 72.5% with indication of category reliability. The discussion suggested that measures and practices implemented by nursing faculty have 8 aspects. These aspects and 40 categories are valuable for the nursing faculty to improve their own teaching activity for medical accident prevention during the nursing clinical practicum.
