Volume 22, Issue 2 (Summer 2014)                   Avicenna J Nurs Midwifery Care 2014, 22(2): 43-51 | Back to browse issues page

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Background: Today, nursing education, basing on programs that emphasize the role of nursing instructors and special attention on students. Methods: This was a quasi- experimental study. The population of the study consisted of all nursing students in their last year of their field training who were being trained in their dialysis unit (n =114) and were divided into two experimental and control groups. The experimental group was trained by the instructor. Data collection tool consisted of the researcher made checklist of 23 questions. The data were analyzed by the software SPSS using descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and chi-square, Wilcoxon and independent t tests and Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients. Result: The results showed that there is a statistically significant difference between mean score of experimental and control group as well as performance level of both groups (p<0.001). Also, the Independent t-test shows that there is a significant differences between the performance score and gender (p=0.008) and performance scores and students’ mean (p=<0.001) in both groups. Conclusion: Providing clinical training in intensive care units, such as dialysis with the presence of the trainer will increase the quality of education and thereby enhance awareness and improve nursing students' performance. .
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Type of Study: Original Research | Subject: Midwifery
Received: 2014/01/11 | Accepted: 2014/07/8 | Published: 2014/09/9

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