Impact of clinical supervision on field training of nursing students at Urmia University of Medical Sciences

Obtaining clinical competency in clinical education
is one of the problems in nursing and use of the new methods of
clinical training is very important. Clinical supervision is one of
the methods used as a mechanism to promote knowledge and skill
for promoting professional performance in nursing students. This
study is carried out to determine the impact of clinical supervision
on feld training of nursing students at Urmia University of
Medical Sciences.
Methods: In the present experimental study, 32 nursing students
were enrolled in the study based on census and randomly
assigned into two groups of experimental and control by block
randomization. Clinical supervision was used in the experimental
group and the control group received routine clinical trainings
in the feld. The students’ clinical skills were assessed using a
researcher-made checklist, the validity of which was confrmed
through content validity method by 13 faculty members and
its reliability was approved by test-retest method on 20 nursing
students in the form of a pilot study and through Cronbach’s alpha
(87%). Data were analyzed using SPSS, version 14.
Results: There was a signifcant difference between the
experimental and control groups in clinical skills such as
recognition and administration of medication, team participation,
patients and their relatives’ education, considering the safety,
infection prevention and nursing process (p<0.005).
Conclusion: The study demonstrated that in clinical supervision
process, students have a better communication and cooperation
with their instructor and with each other and their confdence and
understanding and the amount of learning in practical skills was
enhanced more than routine clinical training. The implementation
of this clinical training method for students of nursing and other
felds of medical sciences is recommendable