Effect of Portfolio Applying on Satisfaction and Educational Achievement of Nursing Students in psychiatry clerkship

Due to the unpredictability of events in routine clinical psychiatry and replacing experience with assignments including therapeutic relationship with patients, Using of modern methods of measurement in this environment regardless of the student's acceptance and satisfaction is not possible.To determine the effect of portfolio applying on satisfaction and educational achievement of nursing students in psychiatry clerkship
In this quasi-experimental study, 60 nursing students who were spending psychiatry clerkship in Ebn-Sina psychiatric hospital in Mashhad (summer of 2015), were studied. They were allocated to two portfolio and educational goals (The usual method of evaluation) group non-randomly. Before the intervention, educational objective was the same for both groups. Data collection tools were include questionnaire of nursing students satisfaction and Writing – functional (educational achievement) test. Data analysis was performed by SPSS (11.5 version) software and the independent T-test, Fisher's exact test and chi-square tests.
In this research, 51/7% (n = 31) participating nursing students were male and were 48/3% (n = 29) female. The independent t-test results shows a significant difference between the score mean of the nursing student satisfaction in the Portfolio (34/3 ± 2/5) and educational goals (30/5 ± 4/2) groups (p Using of Portfolio in training can increase nursing student satisfaction and educational achievement. Therefore, it is recommended that nursing teachers use to assess in clinical education.