Comparative study on views of Nursing students and nursing staff views about the ‎role of nursing staff in clinical teaching of nursing students in teaching hospitals ‎of Guilan University of Medical Science

Introduction: Clinical training is the most important part of nursing education, as it is called ‎the heart of nursing education. Many different factors influence nursing education. Evaluation ‎of nursing staff and nursing student views about nursing student clinical training is very ‎important.‎ Objective: This study aims to compare the students and staff nurses views about staff nurses ‎role in clinical training of nursing student.‎ Methods: This is a comparative –descriptive study, which ‎‏115‏‎ BSN student of Shahid ‎Beheshti faculty of nursing and midwifery and ‎‏190‏‎ qualified nursing staff of teaching ‎Hospitals of Guilan University of Medical Sciences participated. Data collection instrument ‎was a questionnaire with two parts: Part ‎‏1‏‎ with ‎‏11‏‎ questions about demographic information, ‎and part ‎‏2‏‎ with ‎‏24‏‎ statements about different roles of nursing staff related to clinical training ‎of nursing students based on Likert scale. In order to analyze the data, descriptive - inferential ‎statistics were used.‎  Results: The research findings demonstrated that majority of nursing students ‎‏98.3‏‎% and ‎staff nurses‏ 99‏‎% agree or completely agree with staff nurses role in nursing student’s clinical ‎training, only ‎‏1.7‏‎% of nursing students and ‎‏1‏‎% of staff nurses did not agree. None of the ‎participants completely disagree with role of nursing staff in nursing student training. In terms ‎of degree of agreement, significant differences between views of nursing students and nursing ‎staff were observed. (P= ‎‏0.000‏‎)‎  Conclusion: It has been concluded that nursing staff view play about their roles in four ‎aspects of nursing student clinical training, such as learning promotion, supporting, ‎occupational self concept and adaptation of theoretical knowledge and practice was different ‎from nursing student in these aspects of nursing training.‎