Effectiveness of integrated teaching designed according to nurse's core competency

Objective To explore the effects of the integrated teaching," teaching,studying and doing",which designed according to the nurse's core competency. Methods The integrated teaching of "teaching,studying and doing" was applied to the experimental class. The basal portions of the integrated teaching were as follows:searching for the Internet information,Sharing information between groups,per-forming cleaning care for the elders living in welfare agency according to nursing process,writing Nursing History or reflections. Results Comparison of mean scores between the experimental class and the con-trol one predicted significant differcences on theoretical and practical test,and the former was better than the Last. Conclusions The integrated teaching designed according to the nurse's core competency was more effective than the traditional teaching method,since the students from the experimental class valued the knowledge and skills immanently,and were involved in applying,reviewing them in time. Key words: Nurse;  Core competency;  Teaching effectiveness