Table 1 Themes and sub-themes extracted from the interviews
From: Hesitancy among Iranian nursing students regarding future career trajectory: a qualitative analysis
Theme | Sub-theme | Sub–sub-theme |
|---|---|---|
Academic idiosyncrasies | Role of professors | Spreading no enthusiasm for Nursing career |
Distant student–professor relationship | ||
Individual characteristics | Personality | Disliking the hospital setting |
Disliking nursing career | ||
Poor nursing market regulations | Nursing as a tough and intense career | Heavy workload |
Lack of sufficient rest and holidays | ||
High occupational stress | ||
Unfavorable employment contracts | Low wage | |
Job insecurity | ||
Unprofessional prerequisites for employment | ||
The peculiarities of the workplace | Conflict within work environment | Conflicts among staff nurses |
Conflicts between nurse managers and staff nurses | ||
Doctor–nurse conflicts | ||
Patient–nurse conflicts | ||
Barriers to professional nursing practice | Monotonous tasks | |
Lack of autonomy in nursing practice |