Abstract:

Introduction: Education is a regular process in order to aid individuals for acquiring knowledge and new skills. Education is an active interaction between educator and learner. Learning is a stable change process in individual’s potential behavior. Therefore, we can only say that the students’ learning is satisfactory when learning causes proper behavioral changes in them. Clinical learning can affect individual’s attitude which in turn can affect behavior and practice. Since most nursing attitude is achieved in clinical settings and it can affect their practice, this study aimed to assess nursing students’ attitude in clinical setting.

Objective: This study aimed to determine students’ attitude toward effective factors in clinical learning (role of instructor, nursing personnel, ward utility and also ward guidelines). Methods: Findings showed that 84.6% of samples had positive attitude toward clinical learning (positive attitude toward role of instructor and nursing personnel was both 80.8%. Positive attitude toward role of utilities in clinical learning and role of present roles and regulations inward was 89.4% and 51% respectively).

Conclusion: In attention to the importance of clinical learning and its role in the direction students’ attitude, it seems necessary to assess their attitude toward present factors and make the result available to managers and education planners so that they can improve positive factors and current the negative factors.

Key words: Attitude, Education, Clinical learning, nursing students