investigating the adequacy of nurses' training based on a hybrid approach

Background: in the present era, training is one of the most complex tasks in the human resource management of organizations and also one of the factors in organizational productivity. this study was conducted to identify the dimensions and components of adequate training of nurses with an emphasis on psychological empowerment. materials and methods: the present study is quantitative and qualitative research with a descriptive-exploratory design, and in terms of purpose, it is applied research. in the qualitative approach, to collect the necessary data, in-depth interviews were done. the sample included 30 cases consisting of university faculty members and senior managers of nurses. in the quantitative approach, 200 nurses were selected by simple random sampling. to analyze the data, strauss and corbin (1990) approach and fuzzy delphi technique have been used. results: based on the findings, the main components of the adequacy of nurses' education include training, evaluation and psychological empowerment. the results showed that, among these three dimensions, the largest gap for optimizing the model was related to the psychological empowerment dimension, which can be filled by focusing on the sense of competence, sense of significance and sense of effectiveness of nurses. conclusion: the results showed that psychological empowerment by creating a sense of competence, meaningfulness, and effectiveness led to the participation of nurses in the training courses voluntarily and without coercion because they felt they needed to know more, and by psychological empowerment, they will be able to achieve the adequacy of training.