The Survey of Facilitating and Inhibiting Factors of Clinical Education from the Perspective of Intern Nursing Students of Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery

Background and Aim: Ideal clinical education is the process of preparing nursing students to accept different roles in the areas of health services. This study was aimed to determine the facilitating and inhibiting factors of learning clinical skills from the viewpoints of intern nursing students in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at Kurdistan university of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: In this study, 48 nursing students were selected by convenience sampling. Data collection tool was a questionnaire consisted of three sections including 7 questions for demographic information, 34 and 30 questions related to the facilitating and inhibiting factors affecting learning clinical skills respectively. SPSS software and regression 16 were used for data analysis. Findings: The results of this study showed that the most important factor in facilitating intern student learning clinical skills was related to the scope of the relationship between teacher and student (34%), and the most inhibiting factor was teacher characteristics (45.8%). Conclusion: The findings indicated the desperate need for professional competence in intern nursing students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences while considering the facilitating and inhibiting factors in clinical education