Undergraduate Nursing Students' Satisfaction of The Clinical Learning Environment in Iraq-Kurdistan

Abstract

Background: Clinical nursing education is a valuable element of any nursing program and leads to better prepare nursing with the required skills to provide safe and high quality care.

Objectives: This study aims to assess the level of undergraduate nursing students' satisfaction toward their clinical learning in Duhok City.

Material and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study design used. A convenient sample of 197 male and female undergraduate nursing students from three nursing stages including second, third, and fourth class at the University of Duhok/ College of Nursing. The researchers of the current study adopted the clinical learning environment inventory (CLEI) questionnaire to investigate nursing students' satisfaction of their clinical learning environment (CLE) for the purpose of data collection. The statistical calculations were performed by John's Macintosh Project Product (JMP Pro) 14.3.0. The general characteristics of nursing students were presented in mean and SD. The comparisons of satisfaction score and its dimensions among students with different characteristics were examined in an independent t-test or ANOVA one-way. The null hypothesis was determined in a two-sided p-value <0.05.

Results: The majority of the participants (64.97 %) were female and most of them (36.04 %) were the third class students. Regarding the clinical training and supervision, 64.98 % of them responded that they had one training session a week with their supervisors, 40.61% their last clinical placement was pediatric teaching hospital.

Conclusion: The current study concluded that nursing students were relatively satisfied and responded positively with their CLE based on their experiences from clinical placements.