1. NIHAD BSHARAT - PhD in Nursing, Candidate, Arab American University Palestine.
2. LILA DE TANTILLO - PhD, MS, APRN, FNP-BC, Jacksonville University, USA.
3. IMAD FASHAFSHEH - Assistant Prof, Arab American University Palestine AAUP, PhD in Nursing.
4. IBRAHIM AQTAM - Assistant Prof, Ibn Sina College for Health Sciences Palestine, PhD in Nursing, Palestine.
Perception of undergraduate nursing students regarding clinical environment is essential to improve the clinical training. Aim of the Study: This study was conducted to assessing the perceptions of nursing students regarding their clinical learning environment. Methods: Peer reviewed research articles related to perception of undergraduate nursing students about CLE were searched using Boolean operators and validated MeSH terms including "perception" AND " nursing student" OR " nursing students" AND " clinical learning environment" in Pub-Med, CINAHL, and Science Direct data bases. Results: A total of 941 articles were found, 14 research articles with a total sample size of 2875 participants met the inclusion criteria. There was a discrepancy of the highest and lowest mean value for different domains of learning environment, also the relationship between satisfaction and clinical learning was significantly different for various dimensions; the highest correlation value was for the role of the lecturer nurse (r = 0.544). Conclusion: Despite the satisfactory results from different studies of nursing students' perception concerning their CLE, there is still a space for obtaining more information about nursing students' perspectives in various contexts because each has its own characteristics and circumstances.
Nursing Students, Clinical Learning Environment.