Aim: To compare the students and staff nurses views about staff nurses role in clinical training of nursing student.

Material & Methods: This is a comparative –descriptive study, which 115 Bsc, student of shaheed Beheshti faculty of nursing and midwifery and 190 qualified nursing staff of teaching Hospitals of Guilan University of Medical Sciences participated. Data collection instrument was a questionnaire with two parts: Part 1 with 11 questions about demographic information, and part 2 with 24 statements about different roles of nursing staff related to clinical training of nursing students based on likert scale. In order to analyze the data, descriptive - inferential statistics were used.

Result: The research findings demonstrated that 98.3% of nursing students and 99% of staff nurses were agree or completely agree with staff nurses role in nursing students clinical training, only 1.7% of nursing students and 1% of staff nurses did not agree. None of the participants were completely disagree with role of nursing staff in nursing student training. In terms of degree of agreement, significant differences between views of nursing students and nursing staff observed. (P= 0.000)

Conclusion: It has been concluded that nursing staff play roles in four aspects of nursing student clinical training, such as, learning promotion, supporting, occupational self concept and adaptation of theoretical knowledge and practice.

Key word: Nursing education, Nursing student, Nursing staff, View.