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INDIVIDUAL

CONFERENCE

DEFINITION

Individual conference is a clinical teaching method which focuses on the overall development of the individual student with special emphasis to the development of clinical skills.

CLASSIFICATION

Unplanned / Incidental conference

Planned conference

PURPOSE AND VALUE

To guide in teaching.

To acquire more knowledge.

To discuss problems of a particular student.

To plan patient care.

• To evaluate the programme.

• To discover the interests, needs and the problems of the individual student

• To help the students to help themselves

PRINCIPLES

Establishment of a definite purpose and specific issues to be covered.

Knowledge of the students.

Attitude of the teacher towards student-teacher relationship.

SKILLS NEEDED IN SUCCESSFUL USE OF INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE

• Skill in observation

• Skill in use of setting

• Skill in establishment of rapport

• Skill in meeting resistance

• Skill in establishment of authority

• Skill in recognizing ambivalent feelings

• Skill in use of questions

• Silence as a skillful procedure

USES

Diagnostic and remedial teaching in individual conference.

It can be used to clarify class material.

It helps to supplement instructions.

Discipline among students.

To explain answers to questions of individual students

It can be used as a means of assisting the individual who is having difficulties in keeping up with the class

To understand the relationship between class content of the courses and application to problems

Clinical teaching:• The nursing care study• The nursing care plan• Preparation and orientation to new clinical areas• Evaluation

Chances of teacher showing any prejudice, emotional reaction or bias towards the student.

The student may not tell her entire problems to the teacher.

DISADVANTAGES

ROLE OF CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR IN INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE

Helps the student to become aware of the value of these conferences

Able to make constructive criticism while assisting the student in evaluating learning experience

Uses the necessary skills for successful conduction of the individual conference.

Presents intellectual challenges to the student and stimulates motivation

The instructor will have concrete examples to point out needs to nursing student.

Assist the nursing student to analyze the nursing situation and her interaction, then she helps the student to formulate new plans.

The instructor maintains the records of the conference which serves as a guide in planning objectives, future conferences and actions.

PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TEACHERS

Guiding and supervising the nurses Direct the questions from what the staff

knows to unknown The attitude of the teacher Should use reflection techniques or

introspection Be always prepared to learn Teachers need to update their skills by

getting hands on experience

Never discourage the nurse for her knowledge deficit

If the teacher has information material, share with the nurses

Always complement, if the nurse is able to answer the questions.

Training the experienced staff is a challenge

The teacher may create and use some format, which would help as a guide line for teaching

Potency assessment format for staff

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Heidgerken LE. Teaching and learning in school of nursing. 3rd edition. New Delhi: Konark publishers; 2004

BT Basavanthappa. Nursing education. 1st edition. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical publishers; 2003

Neeraja KP. Textbook of nursing education. 1st edition. New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical publishers; 2003

B Sindhu, B Sankaranarayana. 1st edition. Learning and teaching nursing. Mangalore: Brainfill: 2003

ThakkarVG. Nursing and nursing education. 2nd edition . Mumbai : Vora medical publishers

Hamilton G. Theory and practice of social casework. New Delhi: Columbia university press; 1951

Tripathi R. ‘Individual conference- A democratic approach for teaching the nurses in ICU’.‘Asian journal of cardiovascular nursing’. June 1998, 5(2)

 

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