Abstract:
Purposes : 1. To analyze : the state of readiness of audio - visual aids, the problems involved in nursing audio - visual aids, the audio - visual services offered, the methods used by the teacher in producing audio - visual aids. 2. To find out the needs and opinions of the teacher for the services of the educational media center. 3. To propose a project establishing an educational media center for the Thai Red Cross Nursing College. Procedures used : 1. Data was collected from the questionnaires distributed to fourty - eight teachers, administrators and audio - visual personnel of the nursing college. 2. The data is analyzed for statistics value. 3. Conclusions are made from the study and a proposal of a project to establish the Thai Red Cross Nursing College Media Center is made. Results : 1. Most of administrators and teachers have experience in audio - visual education. 2. Most of the teachers used audio - visual aids only once in a while because of : A) the lack of particular audio - visual aids which they needed or desired. B) inconvenience of procuring and using audio - visual aids. C) the lack of skill and knowledge in using audio - visual materials. D) the limited capability in producing audio - visual materials. 3. The problems are audio - visual administration of the college include the lack of experts to work in the audio - visual area and the lack of a certain proposed project. 4. The teacher's problems concerned with audio - visual services and in making audio - visual materials are as follows : A) the limited number of audio - visual materials. B) the lack of an audio - visual budget. C) the lack of the proper audio - visual materials for certain subjects. D) the lack of a material service center. E) an inadequate number of audio - visual personnel. 5. The audio - visual aids that the teachers procured are made by themselves or real life situations on the ward or provided by the college of nursing. 6. The college has service personnel to use the audio ¬visual equipment but the others service are not enough. There are 98.26 percent of the teachers needed all services. 7. There are 97.82 percent of teachers and administrators agreed that it is necessary to establish the educational media center. 8. There are many kinds of audio - visual materials in hand which are in good condition but they are inadequate. Recommendation : 1. A committee should be set up so as to consider the project throughly and to set the plan and policies in advance. 2. The teachers and students should receive the greatest advantage from this project. 3. The budget should be supported by high ranking officials of the Thai Red Cross Society. 4. The audio - visual materials should be sufficient and consistent with subject matters according to the teachers' require¬ments.