Table 6 Participant quotes
Theme | Participant quotes | Occupation |
|---|---|---|
1-Strategies to enhance leadership skills | “Be confident and voice your concerns and opinions” OR “Enhance the way of managing time and distribution of work” | Intern Nursing Student |
“Learn the basic skills from leader they have more experience” | Intern Nursing Student | |
“Let them to do more practice so it can build confidence” | Registered Nurse | |
“Independence, everyone should be independent, at least once in a leadership role to enhance their hidden skills” | Registered Nurse | |
2-Factors affecting leadership skills | “Education can affect it but not seriously, if there is true collaboration” | Intern Nursing Student |
“Yes, leadership skills are acquired and can be obtained by learning” | Intern Nursing Student | |
“Of course, the more you had experience, the more you know how to deal with different situation” | Registered Nurse | |
“Yes, experienced individuals have advantage from those who does not have” | Registered Nurse | |
3-Obstacles facing participants related to leadership skills | “The senior nursing staff in the hospitals, because they follow the old style of nursing practice “obedience to doctor order, don’t contribute in the health management of the patient or choices of health care, JUST DO WHAT THE DOCTOR SAY!” | Intern Nursing Student |
“The existence of some environments that don’t encourage leadership abilities, and their preference for the dominant roles of the boss on a subordinate in the workplace” | Intern Nursing Student | |
“No clinical instructor that guides them in the area. Staff and head nurses cannot accommodate students in the field since there is shortage and with time constraint. In our country, clinical instructors are with the students during their clinical exposure. It is the responsibility of the clinical instructor to teach and guide the students. But what I am seeing in the institution here, the students are left without the supervision of the clinical instructors. They rely on head nurses and staff nurses to teach their students receive the best exposure” | Registered Nurse | |
“A lot but most important things mange time socially during the work time on hospital and the home” | Registered Nurse |