Aim of study: To assess factors affecting learning atmosphere among pediatric nursing
student at Technical Institutes of Nursing. Research design: A descriptive design was used to
conduct this study. Research settings :The study was conducted at four Technical Institutes of
Nursing selected randomly from Giza and Cairo governorate. Subject: One hundred and twenty
pediatric nursing students enrolled in academic year (2017/2018) at Technical Institutes of
Nursing in the previously mentioned settings. Tool of data collection: Questionnaire sheet,
Student evaluation of institute for being a media for learning , Job Stressor to assess the student
stressor during training in the clinical area and likert like type rating scale to assess stressors
related to nature of nursing profession related to evaluation process and an observation check list
to assess media of learning in institute. Results: Revealed that more than half of studied students
believe that the instructor did not had self confident, student not respect instructor knowledge,
instructor not help to improve student skills leads to not feel confident due to increase knowledge
and skills, instructor not do revision after clinical finish, evaluation steps not fair and instructor
not close to students were factors affecting learning atmosphere. Conclusion: study could
concluded that the media of learning and their clinical instructor nature of the nursing
profession, evaluation process ,different types of patient and nature of work were factors
affecting learning atmosphere. Recommendation: it
recommended that overcome factors
affecting learning atmosphere among pediatric nursing
student for facilitate learning through
recruitment of adequate number of qualified teachers
and prepare of experienced teachers.
Further research will be performed