The clinical experience prepares nursing students to become competent and professional practitioners. Therefore, it is important to identify the key characteristics of a positive and constructive clinical learning environment. This cross-sectional study assessed undergraduate nursing students' (n=313) perceptions of their clinical learning environment. The participants were freshman to fourth year nursing students enrolled in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Participants were invited to complete anonymously the actual versions of the Clinical Learning Environment Inventory (CLEI) (Chan, 2001). It was found that the participants gave a higher score to "Student Involvement" and a lower score to "Teaching Innovation". The study indicated that there is still work to be done to provide a healthy clinical learning environment for nursing students and this task belongs to nursing researchers, educators, and health care organization preceptors. In this study, students' struggle to engage themselves in patients' affairs ranked first indicating that it had its roots in the cultural and religious context of Iran. Iran is a country where nursing and patient care are holy issues.
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