title: The role of the unit sister in teaching student nurses in KwaZulu hospitals.
abstract: This study deals with the rate of the unit sister in teaching student nurses in KwaZulu hospitals. The aim of the study was to identify the extent of her involvement in managing the nursing unit to ensure clinical teaching and her involvement in the clinical teaching process. The role theory and the clinical teaching process formed the conceptual framework. Data was collected from 36 sisters in charge of nursing units by means of a questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that: unit sisters regard good management of the unit as essential for effective clinical teaching; unit sisters regard clinical teaching as one of their important roles and functions as they said they were involved in all activities of the clinical teaching process. However, the responses were confined to what the unit sisters said they do which might not be what they actually do.
authors.affiliation: University of Zululand.
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Mhlongo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D013019:South Africa; D013338:Students, Nursing; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires