Background and Aim. Reflection is known as a skill that is central to nursing students� professional development. Due to the\nimportance and the role of reflection in clinical areas of nursing, it is important to knowhowto achieve it.However, nursing trainers\nface the challenge of how to help their students to improve reflection in clinical settings. The aimof this study was to investigate the\nnursing students� experiences of facilitating reflection during clinical practice. This qualitative study was conducted by qualitative\ncontent analysis approach. Twenty nursing students during the second to eighth semester of their educational programwere selected\nfor participation using purposive sampling. Data were collected through in-depth semistructured interviews. The interview was\ntranscribed verbatim, and qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. From the data analysis, four main themes were\nextracted.Motivation to reflect, complex experiences, efficient trainer, and effective relations were four main themes obtained from\nstudy that, in interaction with each other, had facilitating roles in students� reflective process on experiences. The findings revealed\nthat the nursing students� reflection in clinical settings is effective in personal and professional level. Reflection of nursing students\ndepends on motivational and educational factors and these factors increase the quality of care in patients. Furthermore, nursing\neducators need to create nurturing climate as well as supporting reflective behaviors of nursing students.
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