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NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
Volume 17, Issue -, Pages 139-144Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2015.12.005
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Nurse education; Clinical placements; Mentorship; Learning environment; International survey
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- EU Commission [510111-LLP-1-2010-FI-ERAS-MUS-ECUE]
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Nurses underwent different models of education during various historical periods. The recent decade in Europe has been marked with educational transitions for the nursing profession related to Bologna Declaration and enlargement of the European Union. This paper aims to explore the situation of clinical placements for student nurses and assess students' satisfaction with the learning environment in four relatively new member states of European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania. The data for cross-sectional quantitative study were collected during the exploratory phase of EmpNURS Project via a web based questionnaire which utilized a part of Clinical Learning Environment scale (CLES + T). The students evaluated their clinical learning environment mainly positively. The students' utter satisfaction with their clinical placements reached a high level and strongly correlated with the supervisory model. Although the commonest model for supervision was traditional group supervision, the most satisfied students had the experience of individualised supervision. The study gives a picture of the satisfaction of students with the learning environment and, moreover, with clinical placement education of student nurses in four EU countries. The results highlight the individualized supervision model as a crucial factor of students' total satisfaction during their clinical training periods. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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