CORRELATION BETWEEN NURSES' SELF-ASSESSMENT SCORES WITH THE SCORES OBSERVED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR TEACHING COMPETENCY IN PATIENT EDUCATION

Self-assessment is a useful method which leads to the professional development
of graduate nurse attention to their clinical practice. The aim of this study was to compare Selfassessment and observer assessment of nurses' teaching competency in patient education in cardiac
and CCU care units in teaching hospitals affiliated to the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in
2013.
Materials & Methods: This analítico- correlación study was performed on 60 nurses working in
cardiac care units in hospitals affiliated to the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences through using
convenience sampling method. Data were collected using self-report questionnaires, teaching
competency, and teaching observation checklists in patient education. Data were analyzed through
Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test and ANOVA using spss software version 16.
Results :The mean of the Nurse's Self-assessment score was 15.31 ± 2.05 and, the mean of this
evaluation by observation was 12.63±2.20 which demonstrated a significant difference (P=0.001). The
correlation coefficient between the scores of Self-assessment and evaluation by observation was weak
and statistically not significant (r=0.1, P=0.11).
Conclusions :In general, nurses' perceptions of their knowledge and teaching competency was
exagerated and this can lead to a lack of trying to promote your knowlegde which itself can disturbe
the process of patient care. Therefore, self assessment is highly recomended to be done by nurses