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标题：Medical education and informal teaching by nurses and midwives
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作者：Jean Gilmour ; Annette Huntington ; Fiona Bogossian 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Medical Education
电子版ISSN：2042-6372
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
页码：173-177
DOI：10.5116/ijme.53f5.ee77
出版社：IJME
摘要：Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of nurses and midwives to the education of medical colleagues in the clinical context. Methods: The research design was a cross-sectional survey using an online questionnaire. A subsample of 2906 respondents, from a total of 4763 nurses and midwives participating in a web-based study, had taught doctors in the 12 months prior to the survey. The questionnaire generated mainly categorical data analysed with descriptive statistics. Results: In the group of respondents who taught doctors (n =2906), most provided informal teaching (92.9%, n=2677). Nearly a quarter (23.9%, n=695) self-rated the amount of time spent teaching as at least moderate in duration. The most common named teaching topics were documentation (74.8%, n=2005) and implementing unit procedures (74.3, n=1987), followed by medication charting (61.9%, n=1657) and choosing correct medications (55.8%, n=1493). Respondents felt their contributions were unrecognised by the doctors and students they taught (43.9%, n=1256). Conclusions: Educational contributions while unrecog-nised could be considered positively by the respondents. However, discussion of teaching responsibilities is necessary to support the development of teaching protocols and supervision responsibilities as respondents reported teaching clinical medical tasks related to medications, consent and other skills within the medical domain. Study limitations include the nature of self-reported responses which cannot be validated and data drawn from a survey concluded in 2009.