Influence of periodic target teaching on nursing students' internship effect

Objective To investigate the application method of periodic target teaching in clinical nursing teaching and to compare the influence of nursing students' internship effect between these two teaching methods. Methods 60 nursing students interned at our hospital from June, 2013 to March, 2014 were set as a control group and were given traditional teaching management mode. 60 nursing students interned at our hospital from June, 2014 to March, 2015 were set as an observation group and were given periodic target teaching. After four weeks’ internship, the nursing students' comprehensive ability, comprehensive evaluation results, role adaptation, and the patient's satisfaction rate with nursing students and the teachers' satisfaction rate with nursing students were evaluated, investigated, and compared. Results The comprehensive ability score was (85.71±11.72) points, the nursing students' excellent (>90 points) rate 38.33%, the internship nurse's fine role adaptation rate 56.67%, the satisfaction rate of the patients with nursing students 96.67%, and the satisfaction rate of teachers with nursing students 75.00% in the observation group, which Were all significantly higher than those in the control group [ (77.89±10.16) points, 21.67%, 28.33%, 45.00%, and 51.67%] (P<0.05). Conclusions Periodic target teaching can promote the students’ comprehensive ability and comprehensive evaluation results, the satisfaction rates of the patients with nursing students and of the teachers with nursing students and help nursing students better adapt to trainee nurse role, so it can significantly improved the nursing studentis' in ternship effect. Key words: Periodic target teaching; Neurology; Nursing students; Internship effect