Student, Clinical Skills, Attitude

There is a strong demand for high quality, cost effective clinical education experiences that facilitate the student's learning in the clinical setting. Clinical teaching is a challenging task and the instructors can use strategies to change the quality of clinical instruction. This study aimed to determine the factors affecting the student's clinical skills. This is a cross-sectional study on nursing students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences who were selected through simple sampling. Data were collected through a valid and reliable questionnaire on effective strategies of clinical skills including five domains of environmental, psychosocial, students, teaching and-learning strategies, and psychosocial classified based on5 point Likret style. The highest percentage in different domains was calculated based on their importance. According to the results, the mean scores of environmental, psychosocial and teacher factors were higher than teaching-and learning strategies and student factors. There was a significant relationship between environmental factors and the student's clinical skills. (p=0.05) We recommend that effective factors in clinical skills should be considered in curriculum planning to enhance and facilitate the student's learning skills in the clinical wards.