en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><strong>Background:</strong> <font color="#221e1f">The nursing students should acquire practical and theoretical competence required for the patients&#39; care during their 4 years of education. This involves proper use of time. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students manage their time despite the academic difficulties and obstacles.</font></font></font></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><strong>Methods: </strong><font color="#221e1f">This qualitative study was carried out through grounded theory method. The study population consisted of nursing students. Twenty-one nursing students studying at undergraduate level were selected purposefully for participation in this study. The data were collected with semi-structured interview and analyzed through Strauss and Corbin method (2008). MAXQDA 10 software was employed to organize and process the data. </font></font></font></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><strong>Results:</strong> <font color="#221e1f">Core variable of this study was &quot;directing activities toward personal goals,&quot; representing </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f">in 3 behavioral patterns. The behavioral pattern of &quot;retaliation from field&quot; was one of the 3 patterns </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f">applied by nursing students. The properties of this pattern included &quot;unknowingly entrance to </font></font></font><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f">nursing field,&quot; &quot;stress and dissatisfaction with spending time,&quot; &quot;nonacceptance of field,&quot; &quot;attempt to decrease stress and obtain satisfaction,&quot; and &quot;ignoring academic responsibilities&quot;. According to this pattern, the students spent most of their time on non-academic responsibilities while trying to overcome the stress. </font></font></font></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><font color="#221e1f"><font color="#221e1f"><strong>Conclusion: </strong><font color="#221e1f">The findings of this study recommend the necessity for revising the admission method of nursing students and informed choice of nursing field by these students. </font></font></font></span></span></p> Time management, Nursing students, Grounded theory, Stress 15 22 http://jccnc.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Tayebe Mirzaei 10031947532846002779 10031947532846002779 No Nursing Care Research Center, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Fateme Oskouei 10031947532846002780 10031947532846002780 No Iran University of Medical Sciences Forough Rafii 10031947532846002781 10031947532846002781 Yes Nursing Care Research Center, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ali Ravari 10031947532846002782 10031947532846002782 No Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences