Investigation of the View of Nursing and Midwifery Students About Clinical Education Condition in Nursing and Midwifery College of Arak University of Medical Science

Clinical education is the most important part of nursing and midwifery education. It is recognized as the heart of professional education. Clinical education includes more than half of nursing and midwifery education and is the base of acquired professional skills in students. So to improve the quality of clinical education its condition must be considered.

This is a descriptive- analytic study to investigate the view of nursing and midwifery students about clinical education condition. The sample was all of nursing and midwifery students in their fourth semester of education. The data was collected using a questionnaire consisting of five parts: demographic characteristics, educational planning, clinical education instructor, the health and medical care team and educational equipment and space.

The results showed that most of the students view on educational planning was good and moderate (each 38.2%), on clinical instructor was moderate (34.4%). On health and medical care team was bad (50%), and on educational equipment and space was good (37.2%). The comparison of nursing and midwifery students view showed that there was no significant difference on educational planning, clinical instructor and educational equipment and space.

Educational program planners have to consider important factors affecting clinical education, specially the health and medical care team and their way of acting, who the majority of the sample of this study had a negative view on them.