The stressors of clinical training in nursing students-Abadan nursing faculty (2009)

Stress is one of the problems that can inhibit nursing clinical training and influence its efficiency. The aim of this study was identification of the stressors of clinical training in Abadan nursing students. In this cross -sectional study 47 nursing students in seventh and eighth semester were selected. Data was collected through a questionnaire containing four domains: inter relationship, clinical tasks, uncomfortable feelings, contemptuous experience and data analyzed with SPSS (Ver. 13) software. The highest rate of stress was in uncomfortable feelings. Inadequate care from nurses (48.8%), suffering of patients with badly conditions (41.9%) and mentor warning in personnel and physicians places (44.2%) were the most stressful factors. Students expressed that communication with the visitors more stressful than others, and in clinical management domain, cleaning the patients after defecation and urination was the most stressful clinical task. According to high stressful factors, with understanding the underlying causes of stress, it is possible to take good decisions to deal and control stress. In addition, these methods should be taught to students.