Clinical teaching in nursing: learning scenario and its actors.

Abstract

Teaching is conceived as the most peculiar task of the school, which educative functions must be structured (Pérez Gómez, 1992) around two functions. The act of teaching isn’t the universitarian teacher’s responsibility completely, but also the health institutions’ personnel ́s. Clinical teaching is the moment when contact is had with the actual world and the different environments created to construct new professional habits, development of empathy and even the joy of being a nurse. The issue we currently have is that sometimes nursing personnel take for granted that students already have all the knowledge, but mostly all the practical abilities to perform interventions that imply great responsibility, but when the student shows the lack those skills, they’re set aside and limited toobservation only. Teaching personnel needs to have a continuous formation and they also have to do clinical practices so this way they won ́t lose the abilities and dexterities on the execution of different nursing procedures. Even though there’s the clinical settings program for teachers, they have to be committed to execute it, whether they work or not at other place, so this way caring technologies can be updated and they’ll have very useful tools forteaching.