The relationship between clinical placement duration and students' satisfaction with the quality of supervision and learning environment: A mediation analysis González García, Alberto Díez Fernández, Ana Leino Kilpi, Helena Martínez Vizcaíno, Vicente Strandell Laine, Camilla Clinical learning environment Clinical placement Clinical training Mediation analysis Nursing education Supervisory nursing European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER), Grant/Award Number: DOCM 19/02/2020; Grant for Stays in Other Universities and Research Centers co-financed by the European Regional Development 2014-2020, Grant/Award Number: 2014ES16RFOP010; Nurse Education Foundations (Sairaanhoitajien koulutussaatio) fund We thank Mikko Saarikoski, Tony Warne, Unn-Britt Johansson, Evridiki Papastavrou, Erna Tichelaar, Marco Tomietto, Koen van den Bossche, and María Flores Vizcaya-Moreno for the permission of using the data. We thank the schools and students their enthusiastic participation in the study. Multiple factors that influence the learning experience of nursing students while they are in clinical training have been identified, such as the clinical learning environment, the supervision provided by supervisors, and the level of cooperation with the nurse teacher. The objective was to examine whether the relationship between the clinical placement duration and overall satisfaction with clinical training is mediated by the supervisory relationship and learning environment. A secondary analysis was conducted using the data from a cross-sectional study conducted in 17 higher educational institutions in nine European countries with the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher scale (n = 1903 pre-registration nursing students). Satisfaction with the supervisor and a good learning environment mediated the relationship between clinical placement duration and overall satisfaction as perceived by the students. Nursing students with longer clinical placement durations were more satisfied with clinical training as a result of both their satisfaction with their supervisor and their perceptions of good learning environment. The optimal duration a nursing student should remain in the different practice settings is approximately 7 weeks. 2021-07-07T10:47:04Z 2021-07-07T10:47:04Z 2021-06-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article González-García, A... [et al.] (2021). The relationship between clinical placement duration and students' satisfaction with the quality of supervision and learning environment: A mediation analysis. Nursing & Health Sciences, 1– 10. [https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12855] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69593 10.1111/nhs.12855 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial 3.0 España Wiley-Blackwell Publishing