Lived experiences nursing managers about the role of students' work in attaining clinical competency newly nurses

Lived experiences nursing managers about the role of students' work in attaining clinical competency newly nurses Introduction: The lack of nursing staff in hospitals and the high degree of nursing students' inclination to work, have led to a variety of issues and nursing managers face some challenges. Aim: Because of many factors affecting clinical competency of novice nurses, this study was designed to explain the nursing managers' viewpoints about the role of students' work in clinical competency of novice nurses. Material & Methods: In this qualitative study, 35 head nurses, Supervisors and metrons working in teaching hospitals affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences participated. Individualize in-depth, face-to-face and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. As soon as possible, the text of the interviews was transcript word-to-word. Elo and Kingas Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: After encoding all the interviews, 1250 initial codes were created, which ultimately reduced the number of codes to 850, and classified in 18 subclasses, 6 classes and 3 themes named task rearing role (with functional development and professional development classes), personality rearing role (with self-improvement and facilitating communication with others classes) and knowledge rearing role (with Knowledge acquisition and knowledge provision classes).