conclusions attempts should be made to enhance students’ nurse self-concept during their education. counseling, improving public respect for nurses, and implementing measures to enhance students’ professional self-concept are essential for improving their performance. results the mean and standard deviation of nurse self-concept and clinical performance scores were 5.46 ± 1.11 and 2.94 ± 1.45, ...

background in recent decades, health care systems has greatly influenced by the technology development. the technology is helpful to enhance quality of care, reduce costs and improve patient care if appropriate training be applied for technology users. technology user’s training has been studied in some quantitative studies; however, a few investigators have studied the challenges which nurses’...

introduction: although nursing students spend a large part of their learning period in the clinical environment, clinical learning has not been perceived by its nature yet. to develop an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning in nursing students. methods: this is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps. first, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursing stude...

learning is tedious and momentary when clinical education is uniform. one of the aspects that affect the structure and qualitative texture of clinical education are utilization of clinical education patterns. because nursing students must learn about problem solving skills, some thought provoking strategies for problem solving is needed. many studies showed that clinical education patterns are ...

background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of nursing terminology education, research, and clinical use, to identify and analyze any gaps therein, and to propose ways to close those gaps. METHODS We conducted an extensive Internet and literature search to establish the current status of nursing terminology education, research, and clinical use. We also surveyed 40 experts in nursing terminology from 1...

introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...