Perception of nurse educators on uncivil behavior of nursing students

Author: 
Anil Sharma and Anilkumar Jarali

Teacher student relations have to be very optimistic and mannerly but now day’s students become uncivilized with teachers during classes. This study aimed to assess the perceptions of nurse educator on uncivil behavior of nursing students in nursing education programme. Researcher adopted mixed method research approach with embedded design. 55 nurse educators recruited as sample by non-probability sampling technique and then quantitative and qualitative data are collected through a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed concurrently. The findings revealed that 90.9% of nurse educators experienced frequent yawning by the students in the class and 80% of them experienced students talking to other students at inappropriate times or during session and nurse educators felt very disturbed and sad with this uncivilized behavior of students. Researcher concluded that the role of teacher plays very important in reducing the uncivil behavior and such incident should be reported early and necessary action should be taken.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.11825.2060
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