Studying the view of nursing and midwifery students about effective instructor characteristics in North Khorasan Medical University 1387

Clinical teaching is a seminal and important part of nursing education. Clinical instructors play an important basic role in programming and also attaining the clinical experiments. Characteristics of effective instructors has been evaluated in a variety of research. These characteristics are under question and there is no clear picture of effective clinical instructor characteristics. The goal of this study was to determine the characteristics of an effective clinical instructor in the view of the student of nursing and midwifery students of North Khorasan Medical University in 1387. It was a descriptive study on a group of 96 students. The instrument was a questionnaire designed in two parts including demographic data and characteristics of an effectiveness which was omposed of 4 axes including: education, personal characteristics, interpersonal communication and evaluation of students. The method of sampling was census and the study population was the undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery were studying in 3rd or higher semester. The findings show that the mean age of students was 20.84 years. 73.95% of populations were nursing and 26.04% midwifery student's .The students scored the individual (personal) harters as the highest and the teaching skills, interpersonal communication, and the evaluation were scored in a decreasing order of frequency. This study showed that there is no difference etween the view of two disciplines (nursing & midwifery) of an effective clinical instructor. There was no correlation among the variables like age, education level and satisfaction with the discipline of education. This study showed that among the 4 axes of characteristics of effective instructor the highest degree was devoted to the individual parameters. The second position was devoted to teaching and third one to interpersonal communication and the last one to the evaluation of students.