Nursing Student Satisfaction From Iran University of Medical Sciences Clinical Learning Environment

Clinical learning environments have an important role in the learning of nursing students, hence promotion its quality needs to assess students satisfaction of clinical learning environment. The present study aimed to evaluate nursing students’ satisfaction from clinical learning environment; it was a cross-sectional study and conducted in the first semester of academic year in 2009-2010. 127 B.Sc. nursing student at Iran nursing & midwifery faculty participated in this study. Data were collected through actual form of the “Clinical Learning Environment Inventory” which included 42 items in 6 domains; at last day of clinical traing, the researcher was present at the student’s clinical learning placement, and after explained and clirified necessary information about purpose of study, questionnaire gave to students, then all questionnaires were collected after completion. In addition, data was analyzed by SPSS version 16 using descriptive and inferential statistic. The results showed that there was statistical significant assosciation between students’ perceptions of all domains and their satisfaction of clinical placement (p≤0/001). In other words, the most satisfaction relationship was with "innovation" domain while the minimal association observed with "individualization" domain. According to esearch findings, the association emphasizes on more attention from educators and educational planners at all domains of the clinical learning environment, especially innovative instructional methods there.