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Clinical Training by Nursing Teachers and Clinical Nurses: Graduates and Students Point of View
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MM Cherzad, *   , SH Reza Masule |
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Abstract: (6987 Views) |
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Nursing education consists of theoretical and clinical training. Clinical training is important in nursing curriculum and the most problems of students in clinical training, especially after graduation is when they are faced with the first clinical experience in new situation that have not already dealt with it. One of the ways that students become more familiar with such experiences is to use clinical nurses in their training. So the aim of this study was to determine the nursing students and graduates point of view about clinical training by nursing teachers and clinical nurses with use of social learning theory.
METHODS: This cross sectional study was performed on 110 third and fourth year students in Rasht nursing and midwifery school and graduate nurses who worked in hospitals of Guilan University of Medical Sciences. Sampling method was census. Demographic characteristics and evaluation of nursing students and graduates point of view in three domains: academic progress, personality development and social support were gathered by questionnaire and assessed.
FINDINGS: Results showed that in academic achievement domain, 59 nursing students (53.6%) opposed and 6 graduates (65.3%) agreed, in personality development domain, 58 students (52.7%) and 57 graduates (60%) agreed and in social support domain both 80 students (72.7%) and 55 graduates (57.9%) agreed with the role of clinical nurses along with nursing faculty members for clinical training.
CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed that the nurses can be trained to be more efficient under the supervision of nursing instructors and clinical nursing experience, along with theoretical knowledge and practical skills already acquired. |
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| Keywords: Clinical education, Clinical nurses, Nursing faculty members, Nursing students, Graduates |
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Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Biochemical
Accepted: 2014/06/6 | Published: 2014/06/6
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