The educational outcomes of innovative teaching methods in clinical nursing education

Clinical education is one of the principal elements of nursing education. Cultural competency as one of the clinical education outcomes is an important issue in medical and nursing education by it health care providers can gain the ability of working efficiently. Cultural competency can be achieved by implementation and purposeful utilization some learning strategies and processes. The purpose of this article is an overview of utilization of new teaching approaches in clinical education of nursing students and getting information about achieving to learning outcomes, particularly in the cultural competence field.
This was a review article. Persian databases, including Magiran, IranMedex, SID and Irandoc were searched using keyword's clinical training, nursing, innovative teaching methods, clinical education. A total of 62 articles were collected, then 26 relevant articles were included in the final analysis
Among related studies, six concept maps, six clinical education related, four varieties of mentorship approaches, three blended clinical teaching, and two computer-based approach were reviewed and the rest were other approaches.
The results showed that cultural competency is a missing component in nursing education. Considering the importance and necessity of cultural competency, it is recommended that clinical education approaches particularly innovative strategies should use. The qualitative and quantitative methods should use for assessment and improvement of education of this important component.