title: [Constructing indicators of competence for nurse preceptor instruction skills].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The professional teaching competence of nurse preceptors must be monitored regularly. However, the existing instruments that are designed to measure nurse preceptor professional teaching competency seldom examine updated indicators such as inter-professional practice (IPP) and evidence-based practice.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study constructs indicators for assessing the teaching competence of nurse preceptor.
  
  
  METHODS
  Phase I used a literature review to identify appropriate indicators of nurse preceptor teaching competence. Phase II conducted focus-group interviews with 10 nurse preceptors and 6 new nurses from a teaching hospital in southern Taiwan. Content analysis was used to construct a preliminary framework of indicators. Phase III invited 15 experts to evaluate the content validity of the preliminary indicators in two rounds using the Delphi method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The teaching-related competence of nurse comprises 36 items in the five dimensions of passionate commitment to teaching, harmonious learning atmosphere, inductive teaching skills, objective feedback and evaluation, and inter-professional practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The indicators developed in this study may be used by nurse preceptors to examine their teaching abilities and by healthcare institutions to design preceptor training curricula.
authors: Department of Nursing, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Taiwan, ROC.
authors: Hui-Ling
authors: HL
authors: Tseng
authors: Graduate Institute of Allied Health Education, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science, Taiwan, ROC. hsiehjane@ntunhs.edu.tw.
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Lee-Hsieh
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006801:Humans; D011231:Preceptorship; D013663:Teaching
keywords: Delphi technique; evidence-based nursing; interprofessional practice; nurse preceptor; professional teaching competence