Student's work Yes or No: night work nurse's experiences

Carrying out clinical works with nursing students while studying can have positive and negative effects on student's academic achievement and progress in nursing practices in hospital wards. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explain the experiences and viewpoints of night work nurses about student' work.
This research is a qualitative content analysis that night work nurses working in teaching hospitals affiliated to Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences participated in it. Sampling was done purposefully with semi-structured interviews. At the same time with data collection, constant comparison approach and classifying design of Elo and Kynga¨s were used to analyze them.
34 night work nurses participated in this study, of which 70.58% were women. After encoding all the interviews, 1125 initial codes were created which, after several revisions at different stages, reduced the number of codes to 650. These codes were ultimately placed in 28 sub-classes, 10 secondary classes, 4 classes named individual benefits, organizational benefits, negative individual consequences and negative organizational consequences and 2 themes named the benefits of student' work and disadvantages of student' work.
This study showed that although the presence of students in the wards can help to compensate the lack of staff, it also has some problems and disadvantages. After knowing the potential effects of student's work on the individual and professional development of nursing students, it is needed more organized programs to create a coherent approach between colleges and hospitals.