Internship Nurses' Satisfaction with Clinical Learning Environment in Intensive Care Unit

Background: Integration of nursing theory into practice is a vital concern of educational organization. Satisfied clinical environment influences not only educational goals, but also affect nurse students' choices of future career. Intensive care unit is appreciated learning environment which allow a great chance for internship nurses to get training through internship year. Intensive care unit is a multidimensional unit which has a straight influence on the conclusions of internship nurses ' clinical training. Understanding these dimensions is the first step toward enhancing learning and training to ensure safety and quality of patient care. Objective: To assess internship nurses' satisfaction with clinical learning environment in intensive care unit. Method : One hundred internship nurses who received training in three selected Intensive care units of Teaching Main University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. Intensive care units were Causality Care Unite I, General Intensive Care Unit II, and General Intensive Care Unit III.