Practice and Research on the Self-directed Learning of Nursing Clinical Teaching

This paper elaborates the connotation as well as characteristics of self-directed learning, which applies it to nursing clinical teaching. The experiment shows that this learning method excels over others in terms of improving learning interest, initiative, expression skill, team-work spirit, communication ability, critical thinking ability, ability to solve problems, professional quality and patient satisfaction. What's more, the average grade, qualification ratio and outstanding students ratios are superior to the control group. At last, this paper comes up with implementation countermeasures for applying self-directed learning to nursing clinical teaching.