Authors : Houman Manouchehri, Elham Imani, Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh and Hamid Alavi Majd
Abstract: Evidence shows that many nursing students work during their education. According to various studies, factors such as the financial motivation, personal satisfaction, gain experience, enhance employment prospects after graduation and meet new friends attract students toward work. Increasing the number of nursing students worked is a cause for concern. The tension between dealing with the needs of the student and business needs can creates conflicting roles for students. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explain experiences and perceptions of nurses in clinical work during studying.This qualitative content analysis was carried out in the hospitals of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. To collect data, deep and semistructured interviews, the presence in the field and manuscripts were used. Interviews continued to access the deep and sufficient data. In order to provide feedback for the next interview and the adequacy of the data as soon as the interviews were written down verbatim. To confirm the validity and accuracy of research, the Credibility, Dependability, Conformability and Transferability of data were assessed. In this study, 45 graduated nurse and head nurse aged 23-40 year with 1-18 year of service participated. About 870 initial codes were extracted, that in the final, after the reduction, elimination and integration took place at different stages, three themes of student’s work benefits, student’s work problems and causes of underlying problems of work during studying were extracted. Student’s work has individual, institutional, professional, economic and scientific interests and it can cause various individual and organizational problems. Sopaying attention todifferentissues of thisphenomenon and removing the available underlyingproblems andallowingfor increased utilization of students work due to thein creasing tendency of students to work during their educationis essential.
Houman Manouchehri, Elham Imani, Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh and Hamid Alavi Majd, 2017. Work During Studying from the Perspective of Nurses: A Qualitative Study by Content Analysis Approach. International Journal of Tropical Medicine, 12: 15-24.