title: A Survey on Turkish nursing students' perception of clinical learning environment and its association with academic motivation and clinical decision making.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing education is a process that includes theoretical and practical learning and requires the acquisition of theoretical knowledge and skill. Nursing students need a good clinical practice environment in order to apply their knowledge and skills due to the fact that the clinical practice settings play an important role in the nursing profession.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was carried out in an effort to explore nursing students' perception of the clinical learning environment and its association with academic motivation and clinical decision making.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive survey design was used.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted in Giresun University in Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were second-, third- and fourth-year undergraduate students (n=222) in the Bachelor of Nursing Science Degree in the academic spring term of 2014-2015.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data was collected using the 'Clinical Learning Environment Scale', the 'Academic Motivation, and the 'The Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Scale'.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the respondents in this study, 45% of the students were second class, 30.6% of the students were third class and 24.3% of the students were fourth class. There was a statistically significant positive correlation found between the clinical learning environment and the nursing students' academic motivation (r=0.182, p<.05). However, there was no correlation between the clinical learning environment and clinical decision making (r=0.082, p>.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  One of the prerequisites for the training of qualified students is to provide nursing students with a qualified clinical environment. It was found that nursing students' academic motivation increased as the quality of their clinical learning environment improved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Nursing, The Faculty of Health Sciences, Giresun University, Giresun, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yeşim Yaman
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Aktaş
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Nursing, The Faculty of Health Sciences, Atatürk University, Erzurum,Turkey. Electronic address: nezihekarabulut@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Neziha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Karabulut
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Academic motivation; Clinical decision making; Clinical practice; Nursing students