THE STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION ON GETTING CLINICAL TEACHING DURING CLINICAL PRACTICE

Abstract

Background: Clinical practice was one of the important parts in nursing student’s educational process. It gave a lot of experience to the student about truly learning. Clinical practice was one of function that should be available in professional practitioner, especially in service area like nursing. Clinical instructor participation on clinical teaching influenced student clinical performance. Purposes: The purpose of this research is to explore the satisfaction of nursing students in having clinical teaching during clinical practice process. Method: This research was a kind of qualitative research design with phenomenological approach and undergraduate bachelor degree nursing students as informant. The number of informant was 6 students. The research conducted on May 2011, by focus group discussion (FGD) method. The informants were taken by purposive sampling. Result: The research showed that clinical teaching process had a lot of benefits in giving direction and guidance to the students during practice. Characteristic of the guide, time and intensity of teaching influenced clinical teaching during practice. The students felt satisfy about clinical teaching process they got during nursing clinical practice. Conclusion: There is still need introspection activity between clinical instructor and students in order to make close, honest and open relationship. Clinical instructor selection is a need, to get a good character of instructor. Increasing amount of outside town clinical instructor consider to intensify clinical teaching. Keywords: Students Satisfaction, Clinical Teaching, Clinical Practice