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Nursing is one of the noblest careers in the world. Nurses have a positive attitude towards the nursing profession all around the world. High self-confidence induces a feeling of power, a positive attitude towards one’s job, and a better future prospect in nursing students. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between self-confidence of nursing students and their attitude to the nursing career.
This work was a descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study conducted during the academic year of 2016 and 2017. In this regard, 180 subjects were chosen among the students from the nursing and midwifery faculties of Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran and Iran University of Medical Sciences. The required data were collected based on a self-report approach and using a demographic questionnaire, Rosenberg self-esteem scale, and questionnaire of Banaderakhshan et al. about the attitude to the profession. A satisfactory 0.77 internal validity and an 88.0 to 82.0 reliability through test-retest correlation were estimated for the Rosenberg self-esteem scale. Moreover, Alizadeh et al. (2006) reported the internal consistency coefficient or Cronbach’s alpha as 88.0 to 77.0. Content validity and reliability of the questionnaire of Banaderakhshan et al. about the attitude towards one’s profession were approved by the test-retest method and analysis in a study conducted by Banaderakhshan et al. (2006). Data were analyzed using the IBM SPSS version 16 software. The mean and standard deviation statistics, independent t-test, and Pearson correlation test were used to analyze the data.
The findings of this study showed that attitude towards the nursing career is more positive among female students and students with a higher education grade (P-value = 0.001). In addition, the results of Pearson correlation test showed a positive and significant relationship between self-confidence of nursing students and their attitude towards the nursing profession (P According to the results of this study, it is suggested that implementing measures, such as social skills training, are required to identify the potential talents of students and provide the conditions to activate these talents, to use student’s thoughts and opinions in decision-making, and to meet their spiritual needs for enhancing their self-confidence and providing appropriate educational opportunities.

Clinical evaluation of students by the direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) in the practical and real situations ensures their capabilities in facing and predicting the clinical situations in case of particular patient’s conditions. The present research is conducted to determine and compare the efficacy of DOPS with traditional methods in clinical skill learning of students working in intensive care unit (ICU).
This trial work was performed in 2016 in ICU of one training hospitals of Tehran on 15 nursing students who were in the middle of their internship course. The students were randomly divided into two control (25 members) and test (26 members) groups. The evaluation in the control group was conducted based on the traditional approach and for the test group (intervention group) was implemented with DOPS method, based on a reliability and validity confirmed checklist prepared by the author. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cosmograph-Smirnov, chi-square (χ2), and independent t statistics in SPSS16 software.
A significant difference was obtained between the final score of these test and control groups in terms of the studied parameters (Arterial Blood Gas, p=0.001, and central venous pressure, p = 0.004). The final scores were not statistically significant in terms of marital status and gender of the participants. However, the Pearson’s correlation coefficient indicated a positive meaningful (p Since using DOPS leads to an improved learning of students, it is recommended replacing the traditional evaluation methods with this method or, at least, implement this new approach as a supplementary method for student evaluation.

Emotional Intelligence plays a key role on motivations and creation of effective communication through the efficient management and excitement employment. This study was conducted to determine relationship between emotional intelligence score and demographic information of students from Tehran University of Medical Sciences. This study is a descriptive cross sectional correlational study performed in 2013 in Nursing and Midwifery Department of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The population of this research were 69 freshman semester one nursing students selected through the convenience sampling method. The data were gathered through the self-report method using a particular questionnaire. The questionnaire applied in this work consists of two parts: demographic information and a 41-item questionnaire of the revised Farsi Shateh emotional intelligence designed in 5 part Likert’s scale. Validity of the questionnaire was simultaneously and its reliability was satisfied through estimating the correlation coefficient between two tests (r=0.75) and internal consistency of the test questions (α=0.89) in the study conducted by Beshart (2007). Data derived from 69 questionnaires were analyzed using the mean, standard deviation, and chi-square and Z tests extracted by SPSS v.16 software. The mean emotional intelligence score and standard deviation of the students was obtained as 3.72 and 0.364, respectively. Students with diploma GPA below 17 had higher emotional intelligence score as compared to students with minimum diploma GPA of 17 (P<0.05). Moreover, no statistically significant relationship was observed between emotional intelligence score and variables including age, gender, career, housing condition, and previous emotional intelligence (P<0.05). Emotional intelligence is a kind of intelligence which, also confirmed by scientists, can lead to further success in the life and job. Since this intelligence is learnable and improvable for any age and gender, it is recommended to provide suitable trainings about it for students.