Journal of North Khorasan

Introduction: Clinical teaching is a seminal and important part of nursing education. Clinical instructors play an important basic role in programming and also attaining the clinical experiments. Characteristics  of  effective  instructors  has  been  evaluated  in  a  variety  of  research.  These

characteristics are  under  question  and there  is no  clear picture  of  effective  clinical  instructor

characteristics. The goal of this study was to determine the characteristics of an effective clinical instructor in the view of the student of nursing and midwifery students of North Khorasan Medical

University in 1387.

Methods:  It was a descriptive study on a group of 96 students. The instrument was a questionnaire designed in two parts including demographic data and characteristics of an effectiveness which was omposed of 4 axes including: education, personal characteristics, interpersonal communication and evaluation of students. The method of sampling was census and the  study population was the undergraduate students of nursing and midwifery were studying in 3rd or higher semester.

Results: The findings show that the mean age of students was 20.84 years. 73.95% of populations were  nursing  and  26.04%  midwifery  student's  .The  students  scored  the  individual  (personal) harters as the highest and the teaching skills, interpersonal communication, and the evaluation were scored in a decreasing order of frequency. This study showed that there is no difference etween the view of two disciplines (nursing & midwifery) of an effective clinical instructor. There

 was no correlation among the variables like age, education level and satisfaction with the discipline of education.

Conclusion: This study showed that among the 4 axes of characteristics of effective instructor the highest degree was  devoted to the  individual parameters.  The second position was devoted to teaching and third one to interpersonal communication and the last one to the evaluation of students.