Exploring second professional year pharmacy student reflections after an interprofessional shadowing experience with nursing students in critical care units: a qualitative study

Author(s):  
Melissa E. Rotz ◽  
Derek D. O’Neill
Author(s):  
Ines Testoni ◽  
Erika Iacona ◽  
Lorenza Palazzo ◽  
Beatrice Barzizza ◽  
Beatrice Baldrati ◽  
...  

This qualitative study was conducted in critical care units and emergency services and was aimed at considering the death notification (DN) phenomenology among physicians (notifiers), patient relatives (receivers) and those who work between them (nurses). Through the qualitative method, a systemic perspective was adopted to recognise three different categories of representation: 23 clinicians, 13 nurses and 11 family members of COVID-19 victims were interviewed, totalling 47 people from all over Italy (25 females, mean age: 46,36; SD: 10,26). With respect to notifiers, the following themes emerged: the changes in the relational dimension, protective factors and difficulties related to DN. With respect to receivers, the hospital was perceived as a prison, bereavement between DN, lost rituals and continuing bonds. Among nurses, changes in the relational dimension, protective factors and the impact of the death. Some common issues between physicians and nurses were relational difficulties in managing distancing and empathy and the support of relatives and colleagues. The perspective of receivers showed suffering related to loss and health care professionals’ inefficacy in communication. Specifically, everyone considered DNs mismanaged because of the COVID-19 emergency. Some considerations inherent in death education for DN management among health professionals were presented.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
K Zehni ◽  
M Z Rokhzadi ◽  
sh Mahmoodi ◽  
M R Abdolmaleki ◽  
Gh Salehnezhad ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya ◽  
Thembelihle Sylvia Patience Ngxongo ◽  
Somavathy Yvonne Beepat

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of peer mentoring on critical care nursing students’ learning outcomes in critical care units. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative exploratory research design was used to conduct the study. Ten critical care nursing students were recruited from critical care units in the five private and two public hospitals. Descriptions of their experiences were gained through individual face-to-face interviews. Findings The study reinforces peer mentoring as a vital strategy in helping the critical care nursing students to attain their learning outcomes. However, peer mentoring was not consistent in all hospitals and there were no structured support systems to ensure that peer mentoring was formalized. Making peer mentoring a vital component in the registered nurses core competencies would enable efficiency and guarantee the viability of peer mentoring. Research limitations/implications Mentors for the critical care nursing students were not included in the study. Practical implications The study identified a need for incorporating a formalized mentorship programme into the core competencies of all qualified critical care nurses, the unit mentor to familiarise themselves with the prescribed learning objectives of the critical care nursing student and an allocation of supernumerary time for the critical care nursing student and mentors to allow for formal mentoring responsibilities to take place. Originality/value The study reinforces peer mentoring as a vital strategy in helping the critical care nursing students to attain their learning outcomes and conscietises registered nurses of their responsibility as mentors.


2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Eifried, ◽  
Oma Riley-Giomariso, ◽  
Gayle Voigt

Nursing students often reveal how helpless they feel in responding to the suffering of patients. During analysis of two interpretive phenomenological research studies, bearing witness to suffering emerged as a theme that captured the meaning of the experiences of students caring for patients in medical-surgical units and critical-care units. The discussion in this article centers on art as an expression of lived experience, being called by the face of the other, tears in the face of suffering, caring amid suffering, a circle of caring, and illuminating the spiritual in caring. The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of students caring for suffering patients and to explore how a pedagogy of suffering can change teaching, learning, and students’ future practices.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirhossein Meisami ◽  
Jivan Deglise-Hawkinson ◽  
Mark Cowen ◽  
Mark P. Van Oyen

Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.


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