A Study on Guidance before the Bed Bath Care in Fundamental Nursing Practice

- Focused Information, Decision Making and Teaching Behavior of Nursing Teachers -

Abstract

Background/objective: The teaching behaviors of teachers in clinical practicums are important for nursing care and learning. In this study, we clarified the type of information teachers pay attention to and teachers’ decision making and teaching behaviors during the instruction implemented before the students practice daily living support skills in a Fundamental nursing practice.

Subjects and methods: Ten nursing teachers were interviewed after video recording in a simulated instruction setting in which the teachers instructed students before they perform daily living support in a clinical practicum. From video-recorded behaviors and verbatim transcripts, points of focused information, contents of decision making, and teaching behaviors to simulated students during the instruction were extracted and categorized.

Results: Three points of focused information ,such as “contents of support plans prepared by students,” five contents of decision making, such as “decision making about instruction to facilitate reviewing the necessity of support and appropriateness of selected activities to support,” and six teaching behaviors, such as “teaching behaviors related to goal setting and reasons for selecting particular activities to support” were extracted.

Conclusion: The teachers paid attention to many things so that the student could provide care, and guidance was given based on the decision making at the time of teaching. In addition, instructions were provided while considering the opinions of the students.