Teaching pharmacology in clinical environment: evaluating and comparing of educational performance in effective and ineffective clinical instructors

acquisition of knowledge and skills in the field of pharmaceutical care patients is the essential qualification of the nursing profession. Being capable and effective clinical instructors to learn the appropriate pharmacology to student, plays an important role in pharmaceutical care skills in the future career. The current study aimed to investigate the nursing students’ perception on the status of teaching pharmacology in effective and ineffective clinical instructors.
This descriptive comparative study was conducted at Qom Azad University during two semester of 2015-16. The sample selection was done using census sampling. Data were collected with two questionnaires named evaluating of educational performance in effective and ineffective clinical instructors. Reliability was obtained using Cronbakh’s alpha. The data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics with SPSS version 21.
94/2% of participants were female and the others were male. Mean and SD of their age was 23/98±3/38. The majority (9/52%) were studying in semester 8. It was shown that there are significant differences among educational Performance in effective and ineffective clinical instructors using the Wilcoxon test. According to the students, the mean scores of the weakest performance in effective instructors was over the mean scores of ineffective instructors.
Based on this study result, an apparent difference was reported between the effective and ineffective instructors. The results can be used as criteria for an effective clinical teaching.