scholarly journals Facilitating and hindering experiences to the development of humanistic caring in the academic and clinical settings: an interpretive phenomenological study with nursing students and nurses

Author(s):  
Dimitri Létourneau ◽  
Johanne Goudreau ◽  
Chantal Cara

AbstractObjectivesThis paper reports on nursing students’ and nurses’ lived experiences mediating their development of humanistic caring.MethodsUsing interpretive phenomenology, 26 participants were individually interviewed. A five-stage phenomenological analysis based on Benner’s (Benner, P. (1994). Interpretive phenomenology: Embodiment, caring, and ethics in health and illness. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE) method occurred simultaneously.ResultsThe analysis highlighted that the development of humanistic caring is affected by role models and counterexamples, environments in which humanistic caring is exalted or trivialized, communication-related courses, patient storytelling, and work overload.ConclusionsIt might be valuable to raise the awareness of nurse educators about their opportunity in shaping the development of students’ humanistic caring.

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 303-307
Author(s):  
Deborah Flynn

Humour is a centuries-old phenomenon studied by many disciplines. Social and personal identity play a role in the creation, recognition, understanding, appreciation and use of humour. This study, which used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore preregistration nursing students' experiences of the use of humour in the UK clinical setting, highlights what affects the students' use of humour. The influence of sex, age, and culture and ethnicity on the participants' use of humour with patients and healthcare staff is evidenced and explored; the influence of sex did not strictly follow traditional expectations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanifi Nasrin ◽  
Parvizy Soroor ◽  
Joolaee Soodabeh

Nurses are the first role models for students in clinical settings. They can have a significant role on students’ motivation. The purpose of this study was to explore the understanding of nursing students and instructors concerning the role of nurses in motivating nursing students through clinical education. The sampling was first started purposefully and continued with theoretical sampling. The study collected qualitative data through semistructured and interactive interviews with 16 nursing students and 4 nursing instructors. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using grounded theory approach. One important pattern emerged in this study was the “concerns of becoming a nurse,” which itself consisted of three categories: “nurses clinical competency,” “nurses as full-scale mirror of the future,” and “Monitoring and modeling through clinical education” (as the core variable). The findings showed that the nurses’ manners of performance as well as the profession’s prospect have a fundamental role in the process of formation of motivation through clinical education. Students find an insight into the nursing profession by substituting themselves in the place of a nurse, and as result, are or are not motivated towards the clinical education.


BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Dante ◽  
Vittorio Masotta ◽  
Alessia Marcotullio ◽  
Luca Bertocchi ◽  
Valeria Caponnetto ◽  
...  

Abstract Background In postgraduate intensive care nursing courses, high-fidelity simulation is useful to prepare students to guarantee safe and quality care of critically ill patients. Surprisingly, this issue has not attracted sufficient attention in the literature, and it is not clear whether the linear application of the traditional high-fidelity simulation method based on prebriefing, the simulation session and debriefing, can serve as empirical reference in postgraduate students’ education. The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of postgraduate students receiving multiple exposures to an innovative high-fidelity simulation design based on Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory. Methods A phenomenological study was conducted at an Italian University involving a purposive sample of 15 nursing students attending the postgraduate intensive care course. Audio-recorded face-to-face in-depth interviews were held by a researcher in a dedicated room complemented with non-verbal communication outlined in the field notes. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the transcribed data. Results Three themes and ten categories were derived from the data analysis. The themes included pragmatic learning experience, the emotional path, and confidence. Conclusions Multiple exposure to high-fidelity simulation was lived as a pragmatic learning experience enhancing the students’ ability to apply theory into practice. This novel approach also contributed to the transition from negative to positive feelings and improved students’ confidence about technical and non-technical skills when caring for a critically ill patient.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Emmely Muyakui ◽  
Vistolina Nuuyoma ◽  
Hans Justus Amukugo

Good nursing practice requires detailed record-keeping, which should be timely, comprehensive and accurate. Undergraduate nursing students experience challenges with record-keeping. As a result, a phenomenal qualitative study aimed at exploring and describing the record-keeping challenges experienced by undergraduate nursing students was carried out in one of the northern-eastern regions, Namibia. The data were collected through three focus-group discussions with 23 second-year degree nursing students. It became evident that nursing students experienced challenges with record-keeping in clinical practice, as evidenced by the three themes: theory-practice gap, health system-related challenges and hospital staff-related challenges. This study has implications for nurse educators in terms of promoting uniformity and good record-keeping practices in clinical settings.


2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Conoci ◽  
Elena Cristofori ◽  
Caterina Galletti

Gli operatori sanitari, nell’esercizio professionale quotidiano, si avvalgono di un insieme di regole deontologiche che giustificano la moralità e irreprensibilità dell’atto assistenziale di cui sono garanti. Tuttavia l’iper-specializzazione del sapere e lo sviluppo di nuove tecnologie sottopongono costantemente i professionisti della salute all’impossibilità di conciliare sempre ciò che “è possibile fare” con ciò che “è doveroso” ed “eticamente lecito” fare per il paziente, condizione che potenzialmente genera nell’operatore distress morale. Gli infermieri che sperimentano Moral distress vivono una situazione di forte disagio, poiché riconoscono il comportamento da intraprendere più adeguato alla situazione clinica ma, per svariati motivi, non possono metterlo in pratica trovandosi quindi ad agire in modo contrario ai propri valori professionali. Le ricerche sul distress morale sono state condotte prevalentemente su infermieri. Nel presente studio sono state esaminate le situazioni che provocano conflitto morale nel vissuto degli studenti infermieri, in relazione a tutte quelle situazioni d’assistenza che si collocano al limite di una medicina etica e coscienziosa in termini di proporzionalità dei mezzi impiegati e di gravosità o beneficità dei trattamenti per il paziente. È stato svolto uno studio fenomenologico con interviste scritte semi-strutturate su un campione propositivo di studenti infermieri di una università romana. I testi delle interviste sono stati analizzati con il metodo Giorgi. I risultati hanno evidenziato che il Moral distress si manifesta nel vissuto esperienziale dello studente che è già in grado di delineare situazioni spiacevoli, cause, effetti e, in limitati casi, possibili strategie per rispondere al disagio vissuto nei setting clinici.During the professional practice of every day, caregivers use a set of ethical rules that warrant morality and irreproachability of welfare deed they are guarantors to. Nevertheless, hyperspecialization of knowledge and the development of new technologies, steadily submit professionals of wealth to inability to reconcile many times what “it is possible to do” to what “it is right to do” and “ethically correct” for patients, and that’s what potentially creates moral distress to the caregiver. Nurses who experience this moral distress, live a strong situation of discomfort, because they recognize the right behavior to have in a certain clinic situation but, due to several reasons, they can’t execute as they should, and they are incline to practice against their professional values. The most of surveys about moral distress are all conducted on nurses. This analysis inquires all situations that produce moral conflict in lived of nursing students, related to all those situations that lie on the border between an ethic and conscientious Medicine, about the proportionality in the use of means used and burdensomeness or beneficence of treatments for patients. It was carried out a phenomenological study by written semi-structured interviews on a purposeful sample of nursing students of a roman Campus. The texts of the interviews were analyzed with Giorgi’s method. The results showed that moral distress occurs in experiential lived of a student who is already able to outline unpleasant situations, causes, effects, and in few cases, possible strategies to respond to the distress experienced in clinical settings.


2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten D. Watkins ◽  
Vera Roos ◽  
Engela Van der Walt

The well-being of nursing students has become crucial because of the multidimensional challenges that nursing professionals have to deal with. A community psychology framework was adopted in this study. The aim of the research was to explore the different dimensions of well-being as described by nursing students. A purposive and availability sample was used to gather qualitative data (interviews, focus groups and visual presentations) during 2008 and 2010 from first-year nursing students, which were thematically analysed. The emergent themes were grouped according to personal, relational and collective well-being. The findings indicated that nursing students’ personal well-being was undermined by a lack of autonomy, feelings of uncertainty, and feelings of pressure and disillusionment with the nursing profession and their training. Personal well-being was also described in terms of dispositional optimism and the need for a sense of purpose and deeper meaning. Relational well-being was expressed by the nursing students in relation to their friends, family and lecturers. The different relationships were important sources of comfort and encouragement. Their collective well-being was threatened by a challenging work environment, lack of role models in clinical settings as well as incongruence between theoretical training and practical application. Recommendations for improving the different dimensions of well-being are suggested.OpsommingDie welsyn van verpleegkundestudente het deurslaggewend geword as gevolg van die uiteenlopende uitdagings wat verpleegkundiges moet hanteer. ‘n Gemeenskapsielkunde raamwerk is in hierdie studie gebruik. Die doel van die navorsing was om die verskillende dimensies van welsyn van verpleegkundestudente te ondersoek. ‘n Doelgerigte en beskikbaarheidsteekproef is gebruik om kwalitatiewe data (onderhoude, fokusgroepe en visuele voorstellings) wat gedurende 2008 en 2010 van eerstejaar-verpleegkundestudente bekom is, deur middel van tematiese inhoudsontleding te analiseer. Die temas wat na vore gekom het, is gegroepeer volgens persoonlike, verhoudings- en gemeenskaplike welsyn. Die bevindinge het aangedui dat die verpleegkundestudente se persoonlike welsyn ondermyn word deur ‘n gebrek aan outonomie, gevoelens van onsekerheid en om onder druk te verkeer, asook ‘n ontnugtering met die verpleegkunde professie en opleiding. Persoonlike welyn is ook beskryf in terme van ‘n optimistiese ingesteldheid en die behoefte aan sinvolheid en ‘n dieper betekenis. Verhoudingswelsyn is deur die verpleegkundestudente uitgedruk in terme van hulle verhouding met hul vriende, familie en dosente. Die verskillende verhoudings word as belangrike bronne van ondersteuning en aanmoediging geag. Gemeenskaplike welsyn word bedreig deur ‘n uitdagende werksomgewing, die afwesigheid van rolmodelle in die kliniese omgewings asook die teenstrydigheid van die teoretiese opleiding met die praktiese toepassing daarvan. Aanbevelings vir die bevordering van welsyn in die verskillende dimensies word voorgestel.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (30) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Audrey Tolouian ◽  
Diane B. Monsivais ◽  
Melissa Wholeben

Background: Nurse educators who are novice often express the need for improved preparation in the educator role. Problem: With the growth of online programs, one area of concern is the need for educators who are prepared to teach online. Approach: A mentorship for online teaching was developed to give student nurse educators the opportunity to develop educator competencies in the online environment. The process, benefits, challenges, and key points for the success of the mentorship are discussed. Outcomes: Since Spring 2016, 89 nurse educator graduate students have completed the mentorship. Their confidence related to the educator role in an online environment was enhanced, and they took great pride in serving as professional role models to the undergraduate nursing students. Conclusions: The mentorship option provides improved educator role preparation for nursing education graduate students who will teach online. It also provides informal mentorship as well as an unexpected perceived value in higher education to students in undergraduate nursing program.


Author(s):  
Rohollah Rahimi ◽  
Hossien Salimi Bajestani ◽  
Mohammad Asgari

Aim: The purpose of this study was to extract the lived experiences of working couples from marital conflicts. Methods: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach using interpretive phenomenology. In this study, researchers interviewed 12 working couples with marital conflicts using purposeful sampling. Interviews were analyzed using interpretive phenomenology. Findings: Analyzing the data from the interviews led to the identification of the 14 main themes: financial conflict, inappropriate interactions in social media, lack of participation in house chores, ineffective communication, inability in reciprocal empathy and expression,  lack of time management,  conflict of roles and responsibilities, cognition vulnerability, adherence to gender stereotypes, inability to manage tasks at job and work environment, work-family conflict, power struggles, ultra-personal destructive factors and belief and ethical problems, 55 primary and 12 secondary themes in the lived experiences of working couples from marital conflicts. Conclusion: A dual-career family is a place where couples are more likely to enter into marital conflicts if they do not realize fairness in various areas of family and work. The results of the present study showed that the families of career couples may be a high-risk group in terms of conflict, and this factor indicates the need for a negotiating role in the relationship between this type of couple. This highlights the need for special couple therapy for these couples. The results of the present study also showed that ineffective communication, cognitive vulnerability, work-family interaction, financial conflict and lack of participation in home affairs, were the most common causes of marital conflict; so it is recommended that preventive and educational programs for couples include the abovementioned factors.


2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1587-1587
Author(s):  
M. Sarvghamat ◽  
M. Karimollahi

AimThis qualitative study set out to discover and explain clinical experiences of nursing students in a psychiatric unit in an Iranian hospital.MethodThis Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological study was carried out in a psychiatric unit of an educational hospital in Iran. Data were produced through an in-depth interview with 13 participants. Analysis rooted in the Diekelmann manner helped to interpret data and uncover frequent themes.FindingsFour correlated themes - Anxiety, Maturation, Learning Routines and Enthusiasm were recognized in the data.ConclusionThese results present exclusive insight for scheduling and applying and fitting clinical Education in Iran, especially in psychiatric units. The exploration and description of experiences of the nursing students will help nurse educators plan clinical learning opportunities in such a way that they are less stressful, thus ensuring that nursing students are equipped to use themselves as therapeutic instruments.


Author(s):  
Titilayo Dorothy Odetola ◽  
Olusola Oluwasola ◽  
Christoph Pimmer ◽  
Oluwafemi Dipeolu ◽  
Samson Oluwayemi Akande ◽  
...  

The “disconnect” between the body of knowledge acquired in classroom settings and the application of this knowledge in clinical practice is one of the main reasons for professional fear, anxiety and feelings of incompetence among freshly graduated nurses. While the phenomenon of the theory-to-practice gap has been researched quite extensively in high-income country settings much less is known about nursing students’ experiences in a developing country context. To rectify this shortcoming, the qualitative study investigated the experiences of nursing students in their attempt to apply what they learn in classrooms in clinical learning contexts in seven sites in Nigeria. Thematic content analysis was used to analyse data gained from eight focus group discussions (n = 80) with the students. The findings reveal a multifaceted theory-practice gap which plays out along four tensions: (1) procedural, i.e. the difference between practices from education institutions and the ones enacted in clinical wards – and contradictions that emerge even within one clinical setting; (2) political, i.e. conflicts that arise between students and clinical staff, especially personnel with a lower qualification profile than the degree that students pursue; (3) material, i.e. the disconnect between contemporary instruments and equipment available in schools and the lack thereof in clinical settings; and (4) temporal, i.e. restricted opportunities for supervised practice owing to time constraints in clinical settings in which education tends to be undervalued. Many of these aspects are linked to and aggravated by infrastructural limitations, which are typical for the setting of a developing country. Nursing students need to be prepared regarding how to deal with the identified procedural, political, material and temporal tensions before and while being immersed in clinical practice, and, in so doing, they need to be supported by educationally better qualified clinical staff.


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