Nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study
Introduction: Nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. This study was performed to evaluate the nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study. Methods: The research population in this study consists of all the students of nur...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2014-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Advances in Medical Education and Professionalism |
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| Online Access: | http://jamp.sums.ac.ir/index.php/JAMP/article/view/92 |
| Summary: | Introduction: Nowadays students’ opinion is considered as a necessary factor
to evaluate quality in universities. This study was performed to evaluate the
nursing students’ satisfaction about their field of study.
Methods: The research population in this study consists of all the students of
nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). The
data were collected from all the studied population. Data collection instrument
was a research questionnaire. In this cross-sectional research, nursing
students’ satisfaction (72 students) in 6 major topics (situation of educational
environment, situation of clinical environment, trainers, social image, relation
to colleagues and management) was studied. The data were analyzed in SPSS
version 14, using quantitative variables and descriptive statistics including
frequency distribution tables and diagrams.
Results: The findings indicated that 83.3% of the students had little satisfaction
as to the situation of educational environment, 47.2% about situation of
clinical environment, 41.7% concerning the theoretical educational method
by professors, and 41.7% as to the method of clinical education by clinical
trainers. Also 47.2% were not that satisfied with the method of evaluation by
the school professors, 80.6% with the method of relationship with colleagues
and also 62.5% with the nursing social image. Moreover, findings indicated
that 33.3% of the participants in this research were dissatisfied with the
method of evaluation by clinical trainers and 50% with the method of nursing
management.
Conclusion: In the present study, most students had little satisfaction concerning
their field of study. So it is necessary to make an attempt for continuous
development of quality services. |
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| ISSN: | 2322-2220 2322-3561 |