title: Nursing students' views of nursing education quality: a qualitative study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing education is currently facing challenges related to the application of nursing knowledge in clinical environments and inability of students in application of nursing procedures in clinical settings. Nursing students themselves represent the best means of identifying these challenges. This study was conducted aimed to understand the nursing students' viewpoints and experiences concerning the challenges and deficiencies of the nursing education system.
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative study that has been carried out adopting conventional qualitative content analysis approach, 40 senior nursing students with sufficient experience of educational situations participated through purposive sampling. Eight focus group discussions were done with volunteer nursing students from School of Nursing and Midwifery in Zahedan (Iran). All of the interviews and discussions were recorded and then analyzed using the conventional content analysis approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three themes were emerged from data analysis including theoretical education, clinical skills, and the gap between theoretical education and clinical skills.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The students' views and experiences of nursing education quality (theoretical, clinical, and the gap between theoretical education and clinical skills) demonstrated a need to pay careful attention to the selection and recruitment of clinical teachers, and the assessment and control of their educational performance and clinical skills, as well as to determination of standards and validation of education quality.
authors.forename: Fatihe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kermansaravi
authors.affiliation: . alinavidian@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Navidian
authors.forename: Fariba
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yaghoubinia
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult