Maryam Esmaeili; Sina Valiee; Zohreh Parsa-yekta; Abbas Ebadi
Volume 10, Issue 2 , August 2013, , Pages 288-297
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Background & Objective: Effective bedside care is the main objective of nursing education Correct clinical evaluation of students has been one of the toughest tasks for clinical nursing lecturers The objective of this study was the translation and psychometric evaluation of the clinical performance ...
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Background & Objective: Effective bedside care is the main objective of nursing education Correct clinical evaluation of students has been one of the toughest tasks for clinical nursing lecturers The objective of this study was the translation and psychometric evaluation of the clinical performance assessment scale among nursing students in Iran Methods: This crosssectional study was conducted with the objective of validating the Iranian version of the nursing students performance scale within the clinical setting The scale was translated from English into Persian by the backward and forward method Its face and content validities were determined 2 items was added in the content and face validity process In order to determine the construct validity exploratory factor analysis by convenience sampling method was carried out on 275 senior nursing students within clinical educational settings for 5 months Evaluation was conducted according to this scale Cronbachs alpha coefficient was used to measure internal consistency Results: The mean and standard deviation of students scores was 6398 ± 1335 Factor analysis indicated the extraction of three factors: the nursing process (10 items eigenvalue 899) professional behaviors (16 items eigenvalue 797) and technical skills (2 items eigenvalue 203) The reliability of the scale obtained by Cronbachs alpha coefficient was 092 Conclusion: The results of psychometric evaluation of the clinical performance assessment scale vindicated the reliability and validity of this scale and the potential for using this instrument in the nursing education field in Iran However the inclusion of the technical skills factor would need further balancing and expansion
Abbas Ebadi; Zohre Vanaki; Batool Nahrir; Davoud Hekmatpou
Volume 4, Issue 2 , January 2008, , Pages 140-145
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Background & Objective: Continuing education is necessary for all health providers through out presenting developing knowledge new technologies and making an advanced direction but much attempt is to be done for promoting its performance and making it effective this study was designed in order ...
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Background & Objective: Continuing education is necessary for all health providers through out presenting developing knowledge new technologies and making an advanced direction but much attempt is to be done for promoting its performance and making it effective this study was designed in order to evaluate continuing education status in Iran medical society according to review of articles Methods: In this systematic review all available previously conducted studies and references were evaluated generally the published articles comprised one of the following three subjects: 1 Motivational factors 2 Factors related to the need assessment and educational priorities 3 Factors related to the context and methodology Results: Based on the reviewed articles according to the participants point of views learning scientific updates was their first choice and then needed privilege achievement was located Most of them believed that subjects should be presented according to the occupational needs and privileges should be omitted On the other hand some continuing educational experts have stated that there is no scientific need assessment for these programs Findings of several studies have also shown that lecture was the prominent teaching method in these programs Conclusion: In spite of positive points of the law all participants evaluated the program performance method as moderate level So it is suggested that together with correct law application and executive instructions periodical and continues need assessment repeated evaluation by mechanisms like reaccrediting the licenses developing eLearning methods expert lecturer training and measuring the effectiveness of programs should be done through investigation on health indices etc in order to increase the effectiveness of these programs
