Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Nursing career path is a role for nurses to work in accordance with their own clinical authority. This study aims to explore the experiences of clinical nurses in implementing career path. Design of this research is qualitative methods through phenomenology approach, with-in-depth interview technique. Participants in this study were the old nurses who were taken by purposive sampling and the number was seven 7 people. Data analysis was done by using Collaizi method. The research result got five themes; implementation career clinic nurse hampered because of the quantity of human resources, work is not suitable with authority clinical and quality of human resources, the determination of the level of career of the old nurse in Hospital Padang Panjang is based on education, experiences andspecial skills certificate, socialization is not optimal, the expectations of nurses to implementation ofcareer path, and support that expected by the nurse in implementing career path.