فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Clinical education requires creating a supportive atmosphere for learners and nursing students, whoneed support to be prepared for their future profession. The purpose of this study is to investigatethe challenges of supporting the nursing students in clinical education. This article reviewed studiesconducted between 2009 and 2019 with the keywords including support, challenge, students,education, and nursing using SID, Magiran, IranMedex, Google Scholar, Elsevier, and PubMed asdatabases. Among the 926 articles obtained during the two review stages, which were based on theinclusion and exclusion criteria and the first one analyzed the title and the abstract and the secondone analyzed the whole article, ultimately 32 articles were selected for the study. The types of articlesused in this study are as follows: qualitative (16 articles), descriptive analytical and cross‑sectional (12articles), review (3 articles), and mixed‑methods (1 article). The focus of all studies was on thestudents’ clinical education environment. The participants of the studies were undergraduate nursingstudents (in 22 articles), graduate students (in 2 articles), nursing instructors and students (in 4articles), and nursing instructors and managers (in 1 article). Most of the challenges of supporting thestudents included violence, fear, and anxiety; socio‑cultural challenges, environmental‑organizationalstresses; and ineffective clinical education. The findings of this study showed that nursing studentsface many challenges in the clinical setting. Therefore, the managers of educational and health‑carecenters should give a high priority to their students’ support programs.