COMPETENCIES OF CLINICAL INSTRUCTORS DURING THE INTERNSHIP: QUALITATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS

Due to continuous changes in the quality of care، the need for providing safe care by competent nurses is interesting. While surveys show that most nursing graduates، are eligible for inclusion in the labor market. One of the effective factors is the lack of required competencies in the internship period educators that are responsible for the final phase of nursing education. The purpose of this study was to determine clinical educators` competencies during internship period. In this study، a qualitative design، conventional content analysis was used. 16 persons that participated to clinical education in internship period interviewed semi-structurally. The obtained data from participants was recorded and analyzed by Maxqda 2007software، and the themes were extracted inductively from the raw data. During data analysis، 5 themes and 12 categories were developed: «personality traits» (behavior، vulnerability، professional attitude)، «professional communication» (moderating role، ethicalconsiderations and multidimensionalcommunication) «professional education» (empowering in applying the effective teaching methods، skills in applying knowledge) «Management Power» (empowering instudents supervision) «Clinical evaluation» (skills in explaining the objective evaluation criteria and empowering in applying the collaborative evaluation of student) By considering the effective role of educators in nursing education in the internship period and the importance of students` authority and self-steam in providing safe care for patients، maintaining and increasing the clinical educator competency is interested.