background: nurse educators have an important role in clinical learning that can reduce nursing students' stress. however,   a few studies have been conducted on the relationship between nursing students’ tension and clinical educators 'role in such situations, in iran. the aim of this study is to determine the relationship between nursing students’ stress and perception of nurse educ...

Implementing evidence based-practice and research findings into nursing care has been identified as a challenge to nursing staff. This article identifies key barriers to the use of research in the international literature, however, there are limited suggestions as to how to improve this in the clinical arena. This article aims to identify how nurses could optimize the implementation of evidence...

background and purpose: clinical knowledge management (ckm) is considered as a dominant approach for information management and expansion of knowledge in clinical settings. health care executives have recently begun to focus on ckm. therefore, identification of challenges against proper ckm planning is of paramount importance. the aim of this study was to explore challenges in clinical knowledg...

the effect of peer mentoring program performance on clinical function in second semester nursing students     bagherieh f [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, khalkhali hr [3]     received: 02 sep, 2012 accepted: 29 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : clinical education is important part of nursing teaching. the peer mentoring program is considered a learning strategy that helps nursing st...

With increased emphasis on clinical research within the NHS, it is vital that training and educational opportunities are available to enable clinical research nurses to progress in their careers. This article describes the work of the clinical research nurse and examines the advantages and disadvantages of the role. It discusses the history of clinical research nursing and those aspects and gui...

background: learning of clinical skills in the intensive care unit (icu) is important for nursing students. “direct observation of procedural skills (dops)” is a modified objective method in the field of medical sciences, and we conducted this study with the aim of investigating the effect of evaluation using dops method on learning practical skills among nursing students in the icu. materials ...

background it is believed that self-evaluation can empower students; help them to pick higher goals and to try harder to realize these targets. however, the nursing students’ self-evaluation on clinical skills has rarely been studied. objectives to investigate the correlation of nursing internship trainees’ self-evaluation of clinical skills with their teachers’ evaluation. conclusions the stud...

CONTEXT The ability to think critically is an essential element in nursing education and more specifically in nurses' clinical decision making (CDM). AIMS Critical thinking (CT) and CDM ability as well as their relationship were examined among nursing students of Kerman University. SETTINGS AND DESIGN STUDY WAS DESIGNED IN FOUR TOWNS: Kerman, Bam, Jiroft, and Zarand, settled in Kerman provi...