Nursing student's views on problems in clinical education in the pediatric ward in Bushehr University of Medical Sciences

Clinical education is the most important part of nursing education and is expected to provide the students with necessary clinical skills. Nursing students face with many clinical education problems in pediatric ward. This study aimed to investigate the clinical education problems in pediatric ward. This cross-sectional study was performed on forth year students and graduate nurses affiliated to Bushehr University of medical sciences. Methods of sampling were census. Data gathering tool was a questionnaire consist of two parts: 1 - Demographic characteristics 2 - Inventory problems of clinical education in pediatric ward. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire were measured. Data analyzed using SPSS version 18. The most important difficulties in clinical education from the students’ viewpoint were deficiency of facilities، lack of access to the Internet، lack of pediatric scientific journals in the hospital library، unsuitable hospital library location، and lack of students'' evaluation based on training objectives by clinical educators، unclear curriculum and training objectives by clinical educators. It is recommended that nursing education administrators and planners improve students'' learning and motivation by application of the results of this research.