title: Nursing students' satisfaction about their field of study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nowadays students' opinion is considered as a necessary factor to evaluate quality in universities. This study was performed to evaluate the nursing students' satisfaction about their field of study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research population in this study consists of all the students of nursing studying at the second to fourth year of university (72 students). The data were collected from all the studied population. Data collection instrument was a research questionnaire. In this cross-sectional research, nursing students' satisfaction (72 students) in 6 major topics (situation of educational environment, situation of clinical environment, trainers, social image, relation to colleagues and management) was studied. The data were analyzed in SPSS, version 14, using quantitative variables and descriptive statistics including frequency distribution tables and diagrams.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings indicated that 83.3% of the students had little satisfaction as to the situation of educational environment, 47.2% about situation of clinical environment, 41.7% concerning the theoretical educational method by professors, and 41.7% as to the method of clinical education by clinical trainers. Also 47.2% were not that satisfied with the method of evaluation by the school professors, 80.6% with the method of relationship with colleagues and also 62.5% with the nursing social image. Moreover, findings indicated that 33.3% of the participants in this research were dissatisfied with the method of evaluation by clinical trainers and 50% with the method of nursing management.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the present study, most students had little satisfaction concerning their field of study. So it is necessary to make an attempt for continuous development of quality services.
authors.affiliation: Chronic Disease Care Research Center, Nursing Department, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ashrafalsadat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hakim
keywords: Nursing; Satisfaction; Student