Introduction: In Slovenia, the occupation of the registered nurse is regulated. Therefore, education has to be adapted as well. Clinical training for healthcare must represent half of the entire education of the students of healthcare. In the laws and legal acts in Slovenia, it is also determined that the mandatory part of study programs has to be clinical training in a working environment as well. Clinical training helps the students of healthcare to perform the knowledge they gained at the faculties in the clinical environment and upgrade it on clinical cases. Purpose: The purpose of the master’s thesis is to present the legal framework of clinical training for registered nurses according to the Bologna reform, to research legal acts in the field of the settlement of clinical training, and to evaluate the normative groundworks to perform clinical training. Methods: The descriptive, analytical, and comparative methods of research from the field of legal sciences were used. A review of the literature was performed, as well as the description and the critical analysis of the European and national regulations which refer to clinical training for healthcare. A retrospective nested case-control study of standard contracts between the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Ljubljana and three different educational institutions on different levels. Results: We ascertained that the legislation in the field of clinical training for healthcare is insufficient mostly in the provisions who can be a clinical mentor in an educational institution in the field of ensuring financial resources for performing clinical training on the tertiary level regarding keeping records of educational institutions and evaluation of the clinical training. We also ascertain that the provisions in contracts between both parties are determined based on previously analyzed laws. Discussion and conclusion: Clinical training is a very important part of education for registered nurses. The regulation of clinical training for healthcare in Slovenia is good on average. However, there are certain deficiencies. In contracts between educational institutions and the higher education institution, the mutual obligations and rights are specifically determined. The contracts on all three levels are proportionate in most cases which ensures proportionate operations on the relation between the faculty and the educational institutions.
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