Evaluation of clinical skills of final year nursing students in critical care units

ABSTRACT

Clinical education in critical care units is very important and promotion of quality of clinical education can lead to higher qualification and professionalism of nursing students in this area of practice. So, this study was conducted to evaluate the clinical skills of nursing students in ICU, CCU and dialysis Units. This research was a cross sectional descriptive one and the samples of this research were 72 final year nursing students of Yazd Shaheed Sadoughi Nursing School. The data was collected by a demographic and checklist questionnaire about clinical skills in ICU, CCU, and dialysis unit. Analysis and descriptive statistics were used for the research goals. Results showed that clinical skills of nursing students in critical care units is ideal, but these skills in CCU are lower than ICU and dialysis unit. Results indicated that the levels of the clinical skills of nursing students were directly related to their examination scores and interest in nursing. Our findings indicate that special attention should be paid to clinical education in critical care units and selection of students in this field should be given special attention