فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Academic motivation is highly important in nursing education. Providing high‑qualitynursing care requires students who have motivation to acquire information and skills. However, nursingstudents lose their motivation gradually during their program. Thus, the present study is aimed atelaborating on the strategies to improve academic motivation in nursing students.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A qualitative study was conducted in Saveh University of MedicalSciences. The data were collected through focus groups and individual semi‑structured interviewswith forty nursing students, professors, and lecturers of nursing and midwifery school. The participantswere selected through purposeful sampling method. This method is used for the selection of peoplewho have had experience with or are part of the culture or phenomenon of interest. Data analysiswas done as a continuous process through conventional qualitative content analysis.RESULTS: The strategies to promote academic motivation of nursing students were categorizedinto four main categories including strategies pertinent to professors (empowering and motivatingto improve the quality of teaching), strategies pertinent to students (creating positive attitude towardnursing, empowering, and encouraging academic achievement), strategies pertinent to clinicaleducation (improvement of the quality of clinical training and optimization of the academic andclinical relationships), and strategies pertinent to faculty (providing extracurricular activities, propercurriculum programming, and educational and welfare facilities).CONCLUSIONS: The strategies to improve academic motivation are available in different areasincluding professors, students, faculty, and clinical education. In general, improving the quality ofeducation and creating positive attitude in nursing students increase their academic motivation.