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Abstract Students’ learning experiences are impacted by multiple factors. Unfortunately, administrators and educators may find it difficult to change or control certain infiuencing factors found in a nursing programs’ environment. Pediatric nursing students perform the clinical practice in different types of clinical settings. The pediatric clinical learning environment is important for students to be able to achieve the desired learning outcomes. Aim of this study: Assess pediatric nursing students’ perception about their learning experience. Design: A descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing / Helwan University. Subjects: Purposive sample included (176) students at the fourth academic year who passed the pediatric nursing experience were included in the study sample at the previously mentioned setting in the academic year 2017-2018. Tool: A structured questionnaire sheet to collect data consisted of three parts. Part one concerned with characteristics of students including age, gender, educational level and total grade of previous years, part two concerned with assessment ofpediatric nursing students’ perception of their learning experience and part three concerned with the assessment of students’ satisfaction with their pediatric learning experience. Results: the study findings showed that the total perception of the studied sample regarding theoretical, practical and evaluation sections was positive. Also more than half of them were partially satisfied with their learning experience. Conclusion: pediatric nursing students had positive perception about their learning experience in theoretical, practical and evaluation sections. Recommendations: Students should share in planning their pediatric learning experience and their satisfaction must be monitored periodically. |