Developing and Validating Standards for Clinical Teaching Skills

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Abstract Introduction: Teaching in clinical settings presents nurse educators with challenges that are different from those encountered in the classroom. Aim: This study was aimed at developing and validating standards for clinical teaching skills. Design: A methodological design was utilized Setting: It was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Ain-Shams University Subjects of the study: a group of (72) faculty assistants who participating in clinical teaching, and 30 jury group from nursing faculty members for validation. Tools of Data collection: Data collection tools included an opinionnaire for jury validation, an questionnaire for faculty assistants, and an observation checklist for performance of standards. Results: There were very high agreement of nurses faculty assistant staff upon all proposed standards. 87.5% of them agreed upon the total standards. And 80.6% of assistants faculty staff, had adequate performance of the standards reached There was a unanimous jury group members’ agreement upon almost all face validity and most content validity items of the proposed standard. The total percent score of jury group members’ agreement ranged between 85.7 and 100.0. Conclusion: The study has a good applicability as shown by the high performance of the faculty assistants using proposed standard and the standards are valid as judged by a panel of experts in nursing. Recommendations: The study recommends application of the developed standards at the Faculty of Nursing, Ain-shams University and in similar settings and offer the necessary equipment and resources to apply the suggested standard.