What can clinical teaching assistants do?
Clinical teaching assistants function in the role of clinical supervisor, responsible for supervision of students’ skills performance, student evaluation and other aspects of student learning in the clinical setting. The faculty member must be physically present in the facility and available to the clinical teaching assistant if consultation is needed. Clinical teaching assistants are employed by the professional nursing program to assist the program faculty with the supervision of students during a clinical learning experience. The use of clinical teaching assistants is a mechanism that can be used to extend the faculty: student ratio. When clinical teaching assistants are used the number of students supervised by the faculty increases from 10 to 15.
