Authors

1 Faculty Member and PHD-by-research Student,Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, GuilanUniversity of Medical Sciences, Rasht,Iran.

2 Lecturer at Nursing and Midwifery- Paramedical Faculty, GuilanUniversity of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

3 Faculty Member, Biostatistic Department,Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran..

Abstract

Continuousevaluation of clinical education’ quality and solving clinical problems to improve the conditions is critical. Hence, the current study was performed to assess the viewpoints of nursing and midwifery students about the clinical education in Guilan East College. In this descriptive-analytical study,150 nursing and midwifery students studying in various nursing bachelorprogram from 2nd to 8thsemesters were studied by census method. Data collection were executed using a researcher-made questionnaire, and thenthe data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics with applying SPSS Ver.16. Accordingly, from the viewpoints of the students, the most affecting factors on clinical education were reported educator's Characteristics, educational objectives and courses (78.6%), supervision and evaluating components (%42.2), and Studentsandfacilities (24.7%),respectively.The t-test showed a significant difference between viewpoints of nursing and midwifery students on educator's characteristics (P

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