Clinical education problems and ways of enhancing its quality from the perspective of clinical instructors and students of nursing and midwifery at sabzevar university medical sciences in 2008

Background and

one of the main mission of the university is trainivy theprofessional manpower for the society. They must make efforts to reach this goal by identifying the problems، compiling and implementing plans and finally modifying them. Nursing and midwifery are applied professions dealing with human life and clinical education makes the core of these jobs. The present study is intended to investigate the problems of clinical education from the views of clinical instructors and ways of enhancing its quality. Methods and materials: this descriptive study involved senior students of nursing and midwifery (n=116) and instructors (n=13). Data were collected by a questionnaire including three Sections: personal information، clinical problems and solutions. The data were analyzed in spss using descriptive statistics.

the sample comprised of 75 nursing students (64. 7%) and the rest were students of midwifery. Also، 19. 8% (n=23) were male and the rest female، with the mean age of 22. 19±0. 98. Instructors، mean age was 38. 53±7. 61، and 53. 8% (n=7) were male. The most important causes of demotivation for instructors were fatigue due to high education load (36. 2% students and 84. 6% instructors). The most important problems against teaching skills were facilities and circumstances، less or no cooperation by the staff، students overload in wards and the non-educational status of the hospitals.

turning hospitals into educational، oriention of deputies of education and treatment in the university to provide facilies، reducing the number of students in rounds can be considered as solutions.