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Table 3 The process of formation sub-themes, themes, and main themes

From: Exploring nurses' experiences of social media and in-person educational interventions for professional development: a qualitative study

Sub-theme

Theme

Main theme

- series education by the head nurse

-Provide conference by units’ nurses

-Implementation of education through social media

Performing the program by the staff

Approaches to nursing education and its adoption in the health system

-Practical education

-Skill assessment during education

Skill Learning

Achieving effectiveness and efficiency in nursing education

-Ask question

-Participation of participants

Interactivity in education

-Remember and repeat the content

-Use content over time

Remembrance for restoring of information

-The material and spiritual motivation of participating in education

-Managers' support of education

-Consider reward and punishment

The importance of motivation in education

Health care policy and facilitating pathways for nursing education

-Lack of access to education without time limitation

-Lack of access to education without space limitation

-Lack of access to a lot of educational content

-Lack of share information

The time limit for easy educational access

-The high workload in nursing

-Work pressure

Lack of staff

-Non-payment of education

-Low cost of education through social media

Lack of funding for education

-Holding in-person education on limited dates

-Space restrictions for in-person education

Program Failure over time