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Table 3 ; Examples of extracting codes, categories, and themes from raw data

From: The role of continuing medical education programs in promoting iranian nurses, competency toward non-communicable diseases, a qualitative content analysis study

Meaning unit

Code

Category

Theme

“Patients expect me to receive care according to professional standards of nursing practice and require care to be conducted correctly and appropriately. I did not understand the speaker’s meaning in a CME course, and I did not know the reason for holding these programs”

Lack of attention to Patients’ needs

Lack of attention to nurses’ needs prior to designing the program;

Lack of interaction with participants

The gap in knowledge contents

Gaps in the planning of the CME program