EFFECTIVENESS OF REFLECTION IN CLINICAL EDUCATION BASED ON NURSING STUDENTS, PERSPECTIVE IN ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY-TONEKABON IN 2013

Reflection is a basic method in education that affected on the promotion of knowledge and skill in clinical status. It was shown that learning needs using methods which lead to student’s personal active participation in learning process. Reflection is one of the active education methods. This methods lead to the promotion of the ability and professional competence. This is a quasi-experimental study with one group, post-test design. The sample consisted of 47 nursing student recruited by census. In this study, the students were asked to reflect on their performance in clinical setting for four consecutive weeks. A guideline for reflective thinking was given to the students, and they were asked to write their reflections about clinical care in personal journals. The data were collected by a self-constructed questionnaire, and they were analyzed by using spss (v16). Most of the students (70/2%) believed that reflection has influenced their sense of ability and self-esteem. There was significant relationship between the student’s perspectives in time domain and academic achievement (p<001). There was also significant relationship between personal, organizational domains and interest in nursing respectively (p<0/02,p<004). Personal domain of reflection was the most prominent subscale from the students, perspective (14/8±2/3). Reflection empowers nursing student’s thinking, and it improves their ability and self-esteem. Employing this method in nursing clinical education is recommended.