Background: Learning is an active personal process. The student
is the one who
experiences the learning. Teachers cannot provide the experience; they can
provide only the
opportunity for the experience. The central activity of the teacher in the clinical
setting is Clinical
teaching is to plan to provide activities that will facilities learningAim 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.