Clinical nursing preceptors were an important person for new nurses, which can to help new nurses through the process of learning, orientation, and socialization to their working environment. They facilitate the development of knowledge, professional skills, and professional attitudes in nursing through supervision, role modeling, and personal development of the Preceptorship Program. To provide familiar for new nurses to reduce reality shock, decrease early burnout, and helps nurses become functioning members of the healthcare system. Currently, few studies have examined the factors of personality traits and teaching willingness in Clinical nursing preceptors.The main objective of this study were to understand the statuses of the big five personality traits in clinical nursing preceptors.
Methods:
This study method applied a cross-sectional design using structured questionnaires, including demographic characteristics, and the Big Five personality traits evaluation. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed and 185 questionnaires were returned, with the recovery rate of 92.5%. there were 172 participants were recruited from a medical center and a regional hospital in south Taiwan through a convenient sampling procedure. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlations.
Results:
There are 60 items in the Big Five personality traits scale that includes five dimensions of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, with 12 questions in each dimension., the results of this study showed that clinical nursing preceptors that Big Five personality traits score from the highest to lowest was Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Openness and Neuroticism. Personal characteristics job titles had significant difference with Conscientiousness. Years of teaching experience had significant positive relationships with the “Agreeableness” (r =.174), and the significant negative relationships with the “Neuroticism” (r = -.313). Age had significant negative relationships with the “Neuroticism” (r = -.269).
Conclusion:
The results of this study can be provide reference to talent selecting of clinical nursing preceptor for clinical nursing managers.