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Skills Required for Nursing Career Advancement: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: Nurses require certain skills for progression in their field. Identifying these skills can provide the context for nursing career advancement. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify the skills needed for nurses’ career advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative approach using co...

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Autores principales: Sheikhi, Mohammad Reza, Fallahi-Khoshnab, Masoud, Mohammadi, Farahnaz, Oskouie, Fatemeh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kashan University of Medical Sciences 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27556054
http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/nmsjournal30777
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author Sheikhi, Mohammad Reza
Fallahi-Khoshnab, Masoud
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description BACKGROUND: Nurses require certain skills for progression in their field. Identifying these skills can provide the context for nursing career advancement. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify the skills needed for nurses’ career advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative approach using content analysis was adopted to study a purposive sample of eighteen nurses working in teaching hospitals affiliated with the Qazvin, Shahid Beheshti, and Iran Universities of Medical Sciences. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using conventional content analysis. RESULTS: The three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. The results showed that acquiring a variety of skills is essential for career advancement. CONCLUSIONS: The findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. The effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies.
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spelling pubmed-49930702016-08-23 Skills Required for Nursing Career Advancement: A Qualitative Study Sheikhi, Mohammad Reza Fallahi-Khoshnab, Masoud Mohammadi, Farahnaz Oskouie, Fatemeh Nurs Midwifery Stud Research Article BACKGROUND: Nurses require certain skills for progression in their field. Identifying these skills can provide the context for nursing career advancement. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify the skills needed for nurses’ career advancement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative approach using content analysis was adopted to study a purposive sample of eighteen nurses working in teaching hospitals affiliated with the Qazvin, Shahid Beheshti, and Iran Universities of Medical Sciences. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using conventional content analysis. RESULTS: The three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. The results showed that acquiring a variety of skills is essential for career advancement. CONCLUSIONS: The findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. The effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies. Kashan University of Medical Sciences 2016-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4993070/ /pubmed/27556054 http://dx.doi.org/10.17795/nmsjournal30777 Text en Copyright © 2016, Kashan University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.
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