Attitude of Nursing, Midwifery and Operating Room Students about Effective Factors on Clinical Education

Abstract

Abstract Clinical education is a mutual process. Learners and instructors have same partnership. Clinical education is series of instructing and learning facilitator's activities in clinical environment with the aim of creation of measurable changes in learners for presenting their clinical care. This is a cross sectional analytical qualitative study in which 102 senior undergraduate students (field trainees) of nursing, midwifery, and operating room were selected from an educational centre in Rasht, Iran. To reach objectives of this work, a questionnaire was designed by the author. The questionnaire consisted of two parts including demographic specifications plus questions concerning the effective factors on clinical education process which were classified into 5 groups including: characteristics of the clinical instructors, educational programming, conditions and facilities of the clinical education, learners’ conditions and characteristics, evaluating system. Scientific reliability of the tool was proved using content validity and through calculation of α-Cronbach's coefficient (0.827). The data were imported to SPSS (version 16) software package and then using descriptive statistical indexes (frequency, mean, and variance) and appropriate nonparametric tests (Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis) the data were analysed. There was a significant correlation between samples major and their attitude toward the role of educational programming (p = 0.00), conditions and facilities of the educational environment (p = 0.003), and conditions and characteristics of the learners (p=0.03) were observed. Whereas clinical education process is important as a foundation of professional identity formation for learners and due to findings of this study, educational programmers should do their best try to reinforcement and facilitate of clinical education process via codification structural program, proper storage clinical environment and fast reflection of problems.