Nursing Educators Staff Competences regarding performance in Technical Institute of Nursing

Abstract

Competence of performance is important in education and the whole generation of nurses. Aim of this study was to assess the nursing educators staff competence regarding performance in Technical Institute of Nursing. Descriptive research design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at Technical Institute of Nursing and Health Technical Institute in Benha City. Two samples were used: Convenient sample for nursing educators staff [n=38] and simple random sample for students [n=279]. Three tools were used: (I) A structure questionnaire to assess demographic characteristics of both nursing educators’ staff, and students and knowledge of nursing educator staff about competence of performance, (II): Observational checklist to assess their personal and teaching skills and (III): Students’ satisfaction questionnaire. Results: 44.7% of the studied nursing educators staff their age was from 30 to less than 40 years with mean age was 38.08±9.12, 65.8% of nursing educators staff had good total knowledge scores regarding competence of performance, 55.3% of them had high level of total observation scores of competence of performance and 46.3% of students were highly satisfied with nursing educators staff performance. Conclusion: There were two thirds of nursing educators staff had good total knowledge scores regarding competence of performance, more than half of them staff had high level of total observation scores regarding competence of performance (personal skills and teaching skills) and less than half of students were highly satisfied with nursing educators staff competence of performance. Finally, there was no statistically significant relation between nursing educators staff total knowledge scores and their total observation of performance scores. Recommendation: Continuous up grading of training courses in teaching field to promote competence of performance for nursing educators staff. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ