title: Nursing Instructor and Students' Perspectives on Clinical Education Apprenticeship Problems.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Different problems might lead to reduction in the efficiency of nursing students' apprenticeship education and solving those problems.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was conducted to determine nursing internship problems from the perspective of trainers and students.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 20 trainers and 43 senior students of nursing were selected using census method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. Total internal consistency (α) of the questionnaire was 0.88 and had proper convergent validity. SPSS was used to analyse data with applying descriptive and inferential statistics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  More than 50% considered their course relatively weak or weak in helping intern nurses to acquire comprehensive view of the nursing profession that takes a social perspective into account, skills required for the processes of nursing and instructing patients. Problems such as insufficient access to welfare and educational facilities, lack of co-operation among clinical team and scattering of internship sessions during a course were mentioned by nurses and their trainers. They believed that changes must take place in the way internship courses are carried out.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although the internship courses seem to achieve their aim of improving students' skills and independence in providing different nursing services to students and their trainers generally have a positive attitude towards such courses, there are still problems in effective exercise of the training.
authors: Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Holistic (Community-Based) Research Center, Department of Medical-Surgical, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences , Shahrekord, Iran .
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Hasanpour-Dehkordi
authors: Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam University of Medical Sciences , Ilam, Iran .
authors: Masoumeh
authors: M
authors: Shohani
keywords: Baccalaureate; Health educators; Nursing students