The clinical training effect on the recognition, attitude and mastery of nursing students' clinical skills at Islamic Azad University, Varamin Branch

Document Type : 78

Abstract

Introduction: The environment for clinical education  is a place to educate,train and improvenursing students'clinical skills in order to enter  the business community that is  hospital,  studies have shown that students' perceptions of clinical learning environment are different and incongruent with what they encounter with in reality and they are looking for such learning environments which can yield to better results and is the most favorable condition.As a result, the present study aimed at studying the students, administrators and nursing instructors' ideas on the clinical training effects on the recognition, attitude and mastery of nursing students' clinical skills. Material: This is a descriptive study in which 150 nursing students at Islamic Azad University, Varamin Branch and 22 Nursing instructors and 5 nursing administrators were chosen to conduct the study.Data collection tools included a questionnaire whichhad two sections: 1 - a field characteristics that included seven items, and  2 - a questionnaire to measure student’s administrator’s and nursing instructors' ideas with 51 questionson6 majoritems oftheoretical lessons, clinical instructors' features, clinical training environment, clinical assessment procedures, and the consequences of participating in the clinical internship which was used after verifying the reliability and validity of the questionnaire.
Results:The findings of the study revealed the fact that although the students, instructors and administrators' ideas were not in harmony in the case of improving some items in the clinical internship, they were positive on the remarkable role of participating in such courses on the recognition, attitude and masteryof the students in conducting their clinical skills. Conclusions: The results of the study showed the various perspectives of students, instructors and administrators on nursing clinical education environment.Recognizing the exact nature of theideas can lead to accurately identify the key problems clinical trainingwhich can be best used to apply strategies to improve the clinical training effectively.

Keywords

• nursing students'
• clinical skills
• clinical training

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