Issue With Bedside Teaching | Report

Running head: ISSUE WITH BEDSIDE TEACHING
Issue With Bedside Teaching
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ISSUE WITH BEDSIDE TEACHING 2
Introduction
Bedside teaching is model aimed for educating the nursing students. As a nurse leader
it was my responsibility to educate the student nurses and improve their nursing skills, this
bedside model helped me in providing effective education to the student nurses. I used to call
my students and visits a patient, performed physical observation, monitored or verified the
vital signs, and discussed with them the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for treating the
patient providing a clinical insight and knowledge to the students, which will help them
further in their nursing career. The aim of the bedside teaching is to improve the overall
quality of nursing care and to improve the problem solving and clinical decision making
ability of the students by providing them a detailed analysis of an actual nursing
situation(Garout et al, 2016).
However, there are some limitations and issues found in this particular approach of
teaching. Those are mainly lack of sufficient patients in the ward, unavailability of the
doctors for demonstration because of their busy schedule and some doctors did not want to
worsen the condition of the patient through multiple tests and examinations. Some patients
hesitated and felt reluctant to give consent to bedside teaching as they felt they will be used
as a subject of demonstration to the students, the family members also felt it is very
insensitive approach of leaning(Salah et al, 2015). Apart from all these, there were cultural
values and religious beliefs which restricted the native females from participating in bedside
teaching, they were not even co-operative with the student nurses owing to cultural and
language barriers. Some patient thought that it will interfere with their privacy while others
felt uncomfortable(AAl., 2015).