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Sahar Karami, Sedigheh Hannani, Leila Sadati, Mitra Rahimzadeh,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (3-2019)
Abstract
Introduction: Clinical education is one of the most important parts of medical and paramedical education that prepares students for practicing clinical skills. Evaluation of the clinical learning environment with a suitable instrument plays an important role in increasing student motivation and learning. This also applies to the assessment of the clinical environment of the operating room. In search of such a suitable instrument, this study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of Surgical Theatre Educational Environment Measure (STEEM) among surgical technology students of Iran University of Medical Sciences and Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2018.
Methods: This was a descriptive-analytic study conducted from July 2017 to July 2018. After translation and retranslation of the STEEM tool, its face validity and content validity were measured by the relevant experts panel. Then, it was distribute damong 201 surgical technology students. The construct validity of the instrument was investigated using exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha and Pearson correlation coefficient. Data were analyzed using SPSS 19.
Result: The study of face, content, and construct validity resulted in providing STEEM questionnaire with 5 subscales and 30 questions covering 55.6% of the total variance.
Conclusion: The findings of this study indicated that the Persian and native versions of STEEM had appropriate validity and reliability, and could be used to measure the operating environment of the Iranian Operating Room from the standpoint of surgical technology students.
Keywords: measurement, Educational environment, Operating room, Educational measurement, STEEM.
Mirza Hassan Hosseini, Moslem Soleimanpour, Davar Mohammadi, Reza Norouzi Ajirloo ,
Volume 14, Issue 4 (2-2020)
Abstract
Introduction: Researchers acknowledge that different educational and contextual factors can influence human resource development. Because of stress in hospital wards environment and lack of personnel’s support for student, personnel’s aggressive tempers, the supporting of nursing students is an important factor. Therefore, The present study aims to investigate the role of educational environment dynamics in the relationship between organizational learning and empowerment of nurses.
Methods: With respect to study goal the research method is descriptive and correlational in terms of purpose and method of data collection. The statistical population of the study consisted of 582 nursing students in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in the academic year of 2017-2018. Using the Morgan table and random stratified sampling, 232 students were selected. The research tool was three questionnaires that the validity and reliability of the tool were confirmed by content validity and Cronbach's alpha. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, structural equation method and SPSS 23 and Smart PLS 2 software.
Result: Findings indicate that organizational learning affects the dynamics of nurses' educational environment and empowerment. The dynamics of the educational environment has a significant and positive impact on nurses' empowerment. The results of path analysis also showed that the dynamics of the educational environment plays a mediating role in the relationship between organizational learning and empowerment of nurses. The findings showed that 48% of the total effect of organizational learning on nurses' empowerment is mediated by the dynamics of the educational environment. Also the value of GOF = 0.69 confirms the very good fit of the research model.
Conclusion: Organizational learning leads to learning human resources and involves specific organizational behavior that is performed in the learning organization. That is, organizational learning leads to the dynamics of the nursing education and empowerment environment, which is a human resources management tool that can guide human resources to increase productivity as well as enhance the learning of the whole system, especially the educational system.
Keywords: Organizational learning, Educational environment dynamics, Empowerment, nurses
