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Approachability Of Nursing Clinical Instructors: Psychometric Assessment Of A Scale Development, Angela Collier
Approachability Of Nursing Clinical Instructors: Psychometric Assessment Of A Scale Development, Angela Collier
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Approachability of nursing clinical instructors is largely unknown and misunderstood, yet critical for millennial students which currently comprise 82% of nursing students (National League for Nursing, 2014). Nursing education consists of both a didactic and a clinical component. Clinical education is dynamic and allows the student an experiential learning opportunity. Therefore, clinical nursing educators are vitally important. Approachability has been identified in many studies as a leading characteristic of an effective instructor. Although the importance of approachability of the instructor is established, currently no scale exists to measure this concept. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity …