Table 2 Categories and subcategories resulting from the analysis of students’ educational experiences using the TPSN model

Feeling of being a nurse

Confidence in performing tasks

Feeling of professionalism

Feeling of being empowered to make a change

Positive attitude toward becoming a nurse

An integrated and collaborative clinical education platform

Constructive interaction

Supportive atmosphere

Mutual cooperation between the faculty and the hospital

Development of nursing clinical education

The enhanced education of practical skills

integrating theoretical knowledge in practice

Promoting critical thinking

Improving practical skill learning with cascade education

Implementing nursing process in practice

Educational challenges

Inadequate ability of nurses to implement the nursing process

Inadequacy of technology for recording

Role interference