Educational Program about Professional Development for Nursing Teachers and its Effect on their Students' Satisfaction

Abstract

Background: Professional development for nursing teachers improves the quality of teaching and learning in nursing schools, thus nursing students' learning outcomes as well as their satisfaction will be affected. The study aimed to: Assess effect of educational program about professional development for nursing teachers on their students' satisfaction. Study design: Quasiexperimental design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at three secondary technical nursing schools at Menoufia Government (Albagor, Menof and Ashmon nursing schools). Subjects: Included 60 nursing teachers and 174 nursing students. Tools for data collection: Three tools were used namely, Professional development knowledge questionnaire, professional development observational performance checklist for nursing teachers and student satisfaction scale. The results showed that: The majority (88.3%) and (83.3%) of studied nursing teachers had satisfactory level of knowledge regarding to professional development during post-program and follow up phases, while (75.0%) and (73.3%) respectively of studied nursing teachers had good level of performance at post-program and follow up phases, also (73.6%) and (67.8%) respectively of studied nursing students had high level of satisfaction during post-program and follow up phases. Moreover, there was a positive significant correlation between total knowledge score and total performance score of studied nursing teachers thorough the program phases, while there was no significant correlation between total studied nursing teachers' knowledge score and total studied nursing students' satisfaction level thorough the program phases. Furthermore there was a positive significant correlation between total performance score of studied nursing teachers and total studied nursing students' satisfaction level thorough the program phases. The study concluded that: The educational program was effective in improving nursing teachers level of knowledge and performance related to professional development and also increasing level of nursing students' satisfaction. The study recommended that: Conducting an educational program must be continuous process. Engagement of nursing teachers in professional development activities should aligned with nursing teacher needs, expectations and performance improvement goals.