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Sharare Ahmadi,1 Alireza Abdi,2 Mohammad Nazarianpirdosti,1 Fatemeh Rajati,3 Mahmoud Rahmati,2,3 Arsalan Abdi1 1Student Research Committee, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran; 2Nursing and Midwifery School, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran; 3Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IranCorrespondence: Alireza AbdiNursing and Midwifery School, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IranEmail A_abdi61@yahoo.comBackground: Nursing education programs are designed to decrease the gap between theory and practice. It is believed that internship programs can decrease this gap. An internship program has newly been implemented in Kermanshah Nursing School. However, the efficiency of this program has not been assessed. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the challenges related to the internship education of nursing students.Methods: The study was conducted as qualitative research. The participants were eight nursing students who had at least one semester of experience in internship. They were selected through purposive sampling. Data gathering was done through semi-structured interviews, which were recorded and analyzed through a three-stage content analysis approach. For data management, MAXQDA-10 was used.Results: Out of the eight participants, three were male, and all were in the final year of their education. In total, 423 primary codes emerged after analyses, which were placed in seven categories, including: education before internship, lack of support, planning difficulties, interaction with staff, invisible evaluation, welfare defects, and professional identity.Conclusion: The study revealed the challenges of the internship program for nursing students in Iran. Some of the problems were related to educational background, others were associated with the shortcomings of the cultural aspects of the context. Therefore, it is recommended to optimize the clinical training of nursing students in the internship program by addressing these challenges.Keywords: nursing, clinical education, clinical competency, internship

EGU General Assembly 2014, EGU2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr 2014 - 2 May 2014; Geophysical research abstracts : GRA 16, EGU2014-14032 (2014). special issue: "EGU General Assembly 2014", Published by European Geophysical Society, Katlenburg-Lindau

The thesis focuses on tectonics and petrology of the Shotur Kuh complex and it is subdivide into four chapters. The first chapter involves a brief summary of information on regional geology, metamorphism and geochronology from different basement units in Iran. Chapters 2 and 3 include results of my research work that are in print or submitted for publication to international journals, respectively. In general, these two chapters provide an interdisciplinary approach to the metamorphism and tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Shotur Kuh complex and emphasizing the related links between geochronology, metamorphic petrology, micro-structural and macro-structural analyses, and tectonics. The last chapter (4) is a summary of achieved results with their possible interpretation and some future directions of research in the basement units of Iran. Consolidation of the Iranian basement units by metamorphism with partial granitization and partly intense folding occurred during Late Precambrian. This process continued during several major orogenic phases that were accompanied by syntectonic metamorphism and magmatic events. The most important orogenic events were during Paleozoic, Middle Triassic, Middle Jurassic, Late Jurassic and late Cretaceous periods. Some authors assume only epeirogenic movements during...