Innovation and Research of Teaching Way of Clinical Nursing Interns in Internal Neurology Department

Clinical nursing teaching is a key stage to improve student's ability to associate theory and practice. However, the current educational methods in China are still based on imparting knowledge, and neglect the development of student's ability to study initiative (1). In order to improve the clinical teaching quality, our department implemented a new method called " 512 teaching mode " , based on exploring and improving students in practical mode, and achieving efficient effects. We enrolled 84 females nursing interns with practice duration of 3 weeks. They were divided into two groups: 42 carried out traditional teaching method (control group), and 42 practiced the " 512 teaching methods " (experimental group). These two groups had no statistical differences in educational background, gender and age. In order to ensure teaching quality in the experimental group, doctors, chief nurses and senior nurses listened to the lecture content, strictly controlled the quality and indicated the key points of teaching. The head nurse introduced the environment , department layout, types of treated diseases, code of conduct and labor disciplines of the high quality nursing demonstration ward. Senior teachers were designated to teach the operational process of internal neurology department, so that the students could become more familiar with the working environment as soon as possible. Teachers finished the teaching task according to the weekly plan. Class responsibility system was implemented to prevent the occurrence of adverse events through the art of " letting go, observation on ". In the third week of practice, there was a departmental rotation test and unqualified students needed to take a make-up test. In order to help further standardize the nursing work, before completing the course, teachers needed to score their nursing students and so do the students. Practice manual combined with the characteristics of practice in our department to formulate the Nurses Practice Manual in Internal Neurology Department. It included special nursing operation, previous exam results, and mutual evaluation of teachers and students of the Internal Neurology Department. Meetings were held in the third weeks and interns organized a small lecture concerned with the latest research development on common diseases in Internal Neurology Department. Before completing the course, nursing students reported their internship reports in an intern forum. For evaluation, we used the following criteria: contents included theoretical knowledge and technical operation, each part account for 50 points. For the questionnaire survey, we included questions about the enthusiasm …