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Being Encouraged and Discouraged: Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Experiences of Effective and Ineffective Clinical Faculty Teaching Behaviors

A qualitative study was conducted to investigate baccalaureate nursing students’ identification of and experiences with effective and ineffective clinical faculty teaching behaviors. The 272 participants were asked to identify and write a narrative statement about 1 effective and 1 ineffective clinical faculty behavior they had experienced as a student in the clinical setting. The data were analyzed for emergence of common themes. Identification of the themes provided a meaningful way to capture the essences of the students’ experiences of faculty teaching behaviors that fostered and hindered their nursing education in the clinical setting. The themes common to the responses of the participants were that effective faculty behavior was encouraging, and that ineffective faculty behavior was discouraging. Information from this study may help nursing educators engaged in clinical teaching to positively influence the clinical educational experience for nursing students.