Evaluation of the Facilitating Skill of Clinical Instructors in the Supervision of Related Learing Experience (Rle) in Selected Colleges of Nursing in Quezon City,manila , Philippines

Abstract

A  college  have  good  facilities, money, well-designed program  and  leadership; however,  a  very  large  extent  of  successful   delivery  of  services  depends  on  the  quality  of  persons  engaged  in  the  educational  process  and  effective  discharge  of  responsibilities. The  aim  of  the  study  were to determine   the  knowledge, attitude  and  skills  by  the  students  and  clinical  instructors  themselves,    to  determine  the  association  between   the  clinical  instructors’  personal  or  professional  observation  and  their  clinical  teaching  performance  and  find out the  suggestion to  improve  related  learning  experience. A descriptive  study  was  conducted  to  assess  the knowledge,  attitude  and  skills  ofthe  students  and  clinical  instructors. A total  of  190 nursing  students  and  31  clinical instructors   were  randomly  selected. Data  was  collected  using  structured   interview  schedule. Findings  of  the  study  showed  that  the  age  of  the  clinical  instructor  from  college  A  and  college B ranged  from  20 -29 to 50  and  above  brackets. Their  average  age  is  35.09  and  40.21 for  CI from  college A  and  college  B  respectively. The  monthly  salary  of  the  clinical  instructors  from  college  A  ranged  from  below  P10,000  to P15,000 – 19,999  salary  brackets  with  an  average  of  P13,588. In the  case  of  clinical  instructors  from  college B, the  salaries  ranged  from  P20,000  to  P25,000  and  above  with  an  average  of  P27,286. The  students  from  college  A  assessed  the  clinical  instructor  administrative  responsibilities, duties  and  functions  as  “ almost  always” ( X? = 4.20)  while  those  coming  from  college B assessed  this  as “always”  (X?= 4.57). There   was  no  significant  relationship  between   age, gender  and  civil  status  of  the  clinical  instructors  and  their  performance  relative  to  knowledge  and  facilitating  skills. The  most  common  suggestions  of  the  clinical  instructors  and  nursing  students  from  the  two  college  of  nursing  to  improve  RLE  should  be  taken  seriously  by  the  college  administration. These  are  the  improvement  of  skills  laboratory, upgrading  professionally  of  clinical  instructors  through  seminars, workshops  etc, and  the  development  of  standardized  evaluation  system  for  RLE.The  clinical  instructor  is  a  very  important  factor  in  the  educative    process  of  the  nursing  profession. Thus  the  quality  of   teaching  performance  he/she  renders  determines  the  progress  of  civilization.