Problems and challenges of nursing students' clinical evaluation: A qualitative study.

Clinical training is considered as an indispensable and very important part of professional nursing education.[ 1 ] Clinical education is recognized as an essential and highly significant component of professional education for nursing.[ 2 ] Practical clinical skills lie at the heart of nurses’ professional practice; therefore, the mastery of fundamental clinical skills is an important component of courses leading to registration.[ 3 ] Since nursing is a discipline based on practice, there needs to be a curriculum of education that offers students the opportunity to develop their clinical skills, particularly the patient care skills.[ 4 ] Clinical practice is one of the ways used to increase the nursing students’ professional competence.

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