ASSESSMENT FREQUENCY OF STRESSORS IN CLINICAL EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN NURSING & MIDWIFERY FACULTY

Stress is one of the essential problems in clinical education that can be an
obstacle on the way of nursing education and affects its efficiency so for preventing its outcomes,
stressors should be known and eliminated. The purpose of this study is assessing stressors in clinical
education of Nursing & Midwifery students in Urmia.
Materials & Methods: In this descriptive correlational study 146 Nursing & Midwifery students were
selected via census in Urmia and entered the study with purpose of determining stressors in clinical
study. For collect the data two-part questionnaire was used. The first part includes 20 questions
related to demo-graphic data and the second part of the researcher-made questionnaire was related to
stressors in five domains. Psychometric tools was made by content validity method and reliability test
(Cronbach's alpha). Data were analyzed by SPSS (version 16). Descriptive, mean (standard deviation)
and inferential statistics (Mann-Whitney & Kruskal-Wallis tests) were used in this study.
Results: Participants in the present study were 146 students, 70.5% female and 91.1% single with the
average age of 21.32% ± 1.64 years old. 63% were nursing students and 47% were Midwifery
students; 78.8% were living in dormitories. The most stressors with order concludes in the domain of
humiliating conflicts (reminder of the master in the presence of patient or his family) in the domain of
stressors in educational environment( loss of welfare utilities in the department) in the domain of
clinical stressors( seeing unwell patients in persecution) in the domain of unpleasant feelings( being
worried about transfer of contagious illnesses) and in the domain of interpersonal relationships( being
unfair of treatment team about you and other students)
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study it seems that determining clinical
stressful resources and the ways of confronting it are the most important program in
managing the stress of the students to be stable and apprentice in their jobs after graduation.
So it is suggested that people in charge of Nursing & Midwifery faculties hold in-service
training educational workshops and make committees to make and improve the skills of the
masters for reducing the stress of environments