Explanation of Educational Justice Status in the Clinical Nursing Education in Iran: The Content Analysis of Previous Studies

educational justice can transform all the dimensions of nursing and providea background for developing its talent and ability in national and internationallevels. This study has aimed to explain the status of educational justice in nursing educationin Iran.Methods: This study is a review with a qualitative content analysis method; the datawere collected with the search keywords clinical education, educational justice, clinicaleducation challenges, educational equality, fairness in evaluation, in Persian andEnglish separately and were combined in databases PubMed, Elsevier, Medline,Google Scholar, Scopus, SID, IranMedex and Magiran. Thirty five articles which hadfull-text access, published in Persian and English between 2000 -2014 were includedin this study.Result: Five categories were extracted including: "educational justice in the clinicalevaluation "," educational justice in having an appropriate physical environment forclinical training"," educational justice in having equal rights for all students from differentdisciplines"," educational justice in having the experienced trainers regardlessof geographic location"," educational justice about communications at the bedside” .Conclusion: Educational justice in clinical situations is not appropriate and the mostimportant aspect of this injustice is lack of fairness in the clinical evaluation. Giventhat many studies have been done in this regard, it is time to shift research to assessingand implementing strategies to improve educational and evaluation justice in true settings.This is because students cannot tolerate injustice in the clinical settings and thusmotivation, commitment and professionalism is marred in injustice atmospheres.

Keywords:

Educational Justice , Nursing Education , Evaluation Justice , Clinical Education , Clinical Evaluation