Table 2 Generated codes and themes on the description of perception and experiences of students’ clinical learning

…. From my experience, teachers come around the clinical area, but it is not that they are coming to teach us, no teachers are passing by to check if students today showed up in the ward or not?

Nurse tutors rarely come to teach students

Feel abandoned

Experience on personal and technical support for clinical learning

Unfriendly speech from clinical instructors

Shortage of clinical instructors

Lack of supervision support

Busy schedule of clinical instructors

Other teaching methods are not commonly used

Clinical teaching expectations disappointment

Expect to practice under supervision of school teachers and not only clinical instructors

The experience I had at the clinic was great we learned a lot from the staff…….

Great experience from some staff

Staff nurses are supportive

Importance of clinical environment for clinical learning

Some staff provide assistance to perform procedure and correct us

Exposure to real practising environment

Perfect place for learning

Ward activities are well structured and beneficial

A large group of nursing students compared to the available space

Inadequate requirement for learning

Not able to see the demonstrated procedure

A limited number of patients

Failure to do procedure step by step due to lack of equipment’s

Staff uses experience than standard operating procedures

Theory-practice gap

Applying theory to practices sometimes brings confusion

Lack of correct information

Missing ward round

Poor clinical learning schedule

Insufficient clinical educational planning

Missing morning report

It is very difficult to catch the hands-on skills because in one-unit I stayed for only one week ….

Early shifting from one unit to another

Inadequate time for practice

Short clinical time

Unclear job assignment

Unable to meet clinical own objective

Un-necessary clinical task