DIPLOMA IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS‘ ASSESSING THE CURRENT TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND RESOURCES AT FACULTY OF NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN BHUTAN

Manikala Moktan; V.K.Mehta; Tashi Tobgay; Elsa Sana

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

DIPLOMA IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS‘ ASSESSING THE CURRENT TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND RESOURCES AT FACULTY OF NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN BHUTAN

Manikala Moktan, V. K. Mehta, Tashi Tobgay, Elsa Sana

Abstract :

In Bhutan, Faculty of Nursing and Public Health under KhesarGyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan existed since 1982 offering training in Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery with minimum teaching facility, infrastructure and teachers. Initially training of nurses started as ‘hands on’ and in apprentice model. The teaching techniques adopted to teach students were chalk and board during 1980s. By 1989, teaching block with four rooms for class and four rooms for teachers was built. The teaching facility also progressed to overhead projectors, white board, marker, LCD with projector. Equipments for doing nursing, midwifery skills were bought e.g. mannequins, simulation dummy, etc. A cross sectional study was done using self administered questionnaires exploring quality of currently used teaching techniques and facilities. Questionnaire had two sections with twenty items describing various teaching techniques and another section mentioning infrastructure where various types of theory and practical teaching took place. Each question’ response had five point Likert scale (Excellent–1, Good–2, Fair–3, poor–4 and very poor–5) to be rated by participants for choice answer. All students were included in the study. SPSS 20.0 was used for analysing data. Descriptive analyses in percentile were utilized to acquire results. Data showed that majority of students’ rated various teaching techniques and infrastructure as Good. Few dissimilarly rating as excellent are observed for computer labs and reading space in liary.