Effectiveness of One Minute Preceptor Teaching in Improving Clinical Skills of Nursing Undergraduate Students

BACKGROUND Nurse educator has to do clinical teaching when students are posted either in clinical or community field. Clinical teaching is a method of teaching to an individual or group of students who came in contact with patients when they are posted in clinical or in community field. Clinical education enhances appropriate link between theory and practice and at the same time provides opportunity to have a practice on how to solve complex problems of health care, provide safe care and enhance critical thinking. The objectives of the study were to inform nursing undergraduate students regarding one-minute preceptor (OMP) model, assess perception level of experimental group of students regarding OMP and evaluate the improvement in clinical skills of nursing undergraduate students through one-minute preceptor teaching. METHODS Experimental research design was used. Probability sampling technique was used for the selection of nursing undergraduate students and random sampling method for formation of 2 groups of the students. Total 60 students participated. Likert scale was used to assess perception level and response of students. RESULTS In the present study, 70 % students had very good level of perception and (30 %) had excellent level of perception regarding OMP. Response regarding community posting mean score and standard deviation of both groups was 46.50 +/- 2.46 and 35.60 +/- 3.60 respectively. Comparison was done between the experimental and control group and P-value was P = 0.00. CONCLUSIONS OMP module is effective to improve clinical skill to manage minor ailments, to make decision and critical thinking at community setting. It can be implemented to the final year undergraduate nursing students and post graduate nursing students.