title: Specificities and differences in nursing students' perceptions of nursing clinical faculties' competences.
abstract: The impact that clinical faculty have on students is often misunderstood and this research gives us information about how the students' needs and perceptions change over the course of time. The aim of this study is to examine the specificities and differences between expectations and evaluations of clinical faculty's competences done by the first, second and third year undergraduate nursing students (N = 135). The instrument was a modified version of a questionnaire taken from The Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI). Prior to clinical practice, the students evaluated the desirability of each competency expected from a clinical faculty (Questionnaire 0); after the clinical practice, the students estimated how often their clinical faculty possessed and applied those competencies according to the same items (Questionnaire 1). The first-year students had significantly higher expectations of their clinical faculty, particularly in terms of Teaching Ability (P = .001), while the second-year students had significantly lower expectations, particularly for clinical faculty Personality (P = .001). After the clinical practice, the overall clinical faculty competence evaluations were significantly lower among first-year students (P = .006), while the third- and second-year students' evaluations of the clinical faculty more closely matched their expectations. The quality of clinical practice largely depends on the clinical faculties' competencies.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia; Osijek University Hospital, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia. Electronic address: rlovric@mefos.hr.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lovrić
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Prlić
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Barać
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Jadranka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Plužarić
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia; Osijek University Hospital, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Silvija
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pušeljić
authors.affiliation: Osijek University Hospital, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Berecki
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, Department of Nursing, Josipa Huttlera 4, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia.
authors.forename: Radivoje
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Radić
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Clinical faculty; Clinical practice; Competence