Background and purpose: Moral distress is a stressful experience in the face of clinical decision making that causes severe psychological stress. This common phenomenon occurs when a person cannot take appropriate action despite being aware of that. Nursing students are also exposed to moral damage during clinical education, so, this study was conducted to investigate moral distress and relate...

Introduction: Despite importance of evaluating students’ clinical competencies through nursing education program, there is still controversy about optimum characteristics (indices) of clinical evaluation methods and there is no consensus. This study was performed to determine optimum characteristics of clinical competencies’ evaluation and to assess clinical nursing teachers’ viewpoints. Metho...

  Introduction: Access to trustworthy health information is one of the most important factors in nursing care. It is important that the nurses be assured of both importance and quality of information resources to access reliable health information. This study was conducted to assess different methods nurses and nursing students apply to access information resources and to assess the inhibiting ...

Introduction: Clinical training plays an important role in nursing students curriculum programs. Some factors could affect negatively on the learning quality in clinical setting. The aim of this study was to determine the challenges of clinical training based on view point of nursing students of Shiraz University of medical sciences. Methods: This research is a descriptive study carried out in ...

  Background and objective : Clinical decision-making is an essential part of nursing practice, constantly used by nurses in order to take care of patients. While some studies have recognized that teaching the clinical decision- making skills has always accompanied problems, an important goal of baccalaureate nursing education is student nurses’ development of skilled clinical decision-making...