Iranian Nursing Instructor's Perceived Experiences of Challenges of Effective Education: A Qualitative Content Analysis

Any shortcoming and deficiency in training has direct impacts on clinical knowledge and skills of nurses. Such impacts will eventually affect community health. The purpose of the present study was to explore nursing instructors’ perceptions about challenges of effective education in Iranian nursing. A qualitative content analysis approach; in-depth Semi-structured interviews and purposeful sampling were conducted in 2011 with 15 participants to better understand their perceptions of the effectiveness education In Ahvaz and Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The data analysis resulted in three main themes achieved: ‘Non-care-centered education، inadequate technical competence ‘Evaluation not conducted، were considered as important challenges of in effectiveness education in Iranian nursing. The findings can be helpful for international nurse instructors and educational planners to be exposed to the unheard perspectives of nursing faculties and reconsider the weakness of effective education in nursing planning and evaluation process conducted by them. We suggested that educational goals in nursing are designed base on “care”. If the weaknesses have improved، it can lead to achieve technical competency of nurses and community health will promote.