Abstract:

Introduction: Clinical training is the most important part of nursing education, as it is called the heart of nursing education. Many different factors influence nursing education. Evaluation of nursing staff and nursing student views about nursing student clinical training is very important.

Objective: This study aims to compare the students and staff nurses views about staff nurses role in clinical training of nursing student.

Methods: This is a comparative –descriptive study, which 115 BSN student of Shahid Beheshti faculty of nursing and midwifery and 190 qualified nursing staff of teaching Hospitals of Guilan University of Medical Sciences participated. Data collection instrument was a questionnaire with two parts: Part 1 with 11 questions about demographic information, and part 2 with 24 statements about different roles of nursing staff related to clinical training of nursing students based on Likert scale. In order to analyze the data, descriptive - inferential statistics were used.

Results: The research findings demonstrated that majority of nursing students 98.3% and staff nurses 99% agree or completely agree with staff nurses role in nursing student’s clinical training, only 1.7% of nursing students and 1% of staff nurses did not agree. None of the participants completely disagree with role of nursing staff in nursing student training. In terms of degree of agreement, significant differences between views of nursing students and nursing staff were observed. (P= 0.000)

Conclusion: It has been concluded that nursing staff view play about their roles in four aspects of nursing student clinical training, such as learning promotion, supporting, occupational self concept and adaptation of theoretical knowledge and practice was different from nursing student in these aspects of nursing training.

Key words: Clinical education, nursing student, Nursing staff, View