Summary: | Background. Therapeutic communication skills is an ability to be possessed
by all nursing staff in providing nursing care. These abilities need to be
developed since the early days of education so that it becomes a habit for
students when they perform their activities in clinical practices. To achieve
this skill, competence in guiding or supervising students using a directed and
structured clinical guidance model is needed.
Objective. This study aimed to determine the effect of clinical guidance of
microskill model on students� therapeutic communication skills in nursing
clinical practice.
Methods. A quantitative approach study using a method of quasi experiment
non-randomized posttest-only control design. The respondents of this study
were the overall nursing students of Palu Health Polytechnic, MoH, in their
third semester of 2010/2011 academic year, totaling 48 people as the
intervention group and 49 persons as the control group who had met the
academic requirements to follow clinical practice.
Results. The results showed that there was a score difference in therapeutic
communication skills between the intervention group who received clinical
guidance of microskill model and the control group who received clinical
guidance of conventional model. The analysis data showed a mean
difference in the initial observation 4.50 p-value 0.000 and the final
observation 9.349 p-value 0.000. There are significant improvement in
intervention group score (1,69) and control group score (-3,16), mean
differences 4,65 with p value 0,10.
Conclusion. There was a significant score difference in therapeutic
communication skills in which the score of students who received clinical
guidance of microskill model was higher than that of students who received
clinical guidance of conventional model.
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