Causes of stress in Nursing students in clinical practice Section: LEARNING TO TEACH AuthorsMónica de la Piedra Cubells, Asier Jiménez Sánchez-Rico, Immaculada Puchalt Cuadau, Ferrán Sánchez Nieto, Pablo Silva Tomás Position Alumnos de la Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería “La Fe”, Valencia. Contact email: psilvatomas@gmail.com Abstract Objective: to know the situations considered by the students of the Diploma in Nursing as more stressing and how different variables such as age, sex, current and previous professional experience affect in the perception of stress. Methods: we used the responses of 48 students from second and third year of the Diploma in Nursing in the School of Nursing La Fe de Valencia. The stress measurement was conducted through a questionnaire containing 12 items of the KEZKAK Questionnaire to measure stressors in clinical situations, as well as 12 questions created by us that seek to explore the stress situations of the students in their role as students. The data has been treated with the IBM SPSS Statistics. Results: the study shows that “being in a situation without knowing what to do” (40%) and “doing a bad job and harming the patient” (46,7%) are the two situations in which the highest percentage of students expressed a high stress level. It also is important the influence of gender on perceived stress when "having to deliver bad news" (df = 3; p = 0,016), age in "too involved with the patient" (df = 3; p = 0,041), in “the patient to treat me badly” (df = 2; p = 0,003), and “not being able to combine personal life with my studies” (df = 3; p = 0,014). Discussion: we observed that, in general, clinical practice is more stressful than the studies. In addition, there are some socio-demographic factors that influence perceptions of stress. Women have a higher stress level when “having to deliver bad news”. Older people have more stress in situations like “getting too involved with the patient”, “the patient treats me badly” and “not being able to combine personal life with my studies”. Keywords: clinical practice; nursing students; questionnaire; stressorsstudies Versión en Español Título: Causas de estrés en los estudiantes de Enfermería en las prácticas clínicas