scholarly journals Nurses' experiences working with nursing students in a hospital: a phenomenological enquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Raquel Lapeña-Moñux ◽  
Luis Cibanal-Juan ◽  
Mª Isabel Orts-Cortés ◽  
Mª Loreto Maciá-Soler ◽  
Domingo Palacios-Ceña
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
The University

Abstract Objective: this paper explores the experiences of registered nurses working with Spanish nursing students within the hospital. Methods: a qualitative phenomenological approach was followed. Purposeful sampling was employed. Twenty-one registered nurses, from a public hospital located in Spain, were included in the study. Data were collected by means of unstructured and semi-structured interviews and were analysed using Giorgi's proposal. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research were followed. Results: three main themes described the experience of registered nurses: "The nurse's relationship with nursing students"; most nurses emphasized the importance of the first contact with students and they considered students' attitude to be key. "Defining the role of the student in clinical practice"; it is necessary to unify the nurse's role and interventions to avoid misleading students and establish priorities in clinical practice. "Building bridges between clinical settings and the University"; the need to establish a common ground and connection between the university and hospital clinical settings was emphasized. Nurses felt that the training program should also be designed by the clinical settings themselves. Conclusions: understanding the meaning of nursing students with registered nurses might gain a deeper insight into their expectations.

scholarly journals Professional Socialization of Nursing Students and Its Relationship with Self-Esteem

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maasoumeh Barkhordari-Sharifabad ◽  
AliAskar Mortazavi
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
The University

Background: Nursing students must have the desired level of professional socialization to acquire the necessary roles and values to participate in the health care system. The process of socialization is part of the self-concept. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the level of socialization of nursing students and its relationship with self-esteem. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data were collected from 166 nursing students. Data collection tools were demographic, professional socialization, and self-esteem questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods by SPSS 16. Results: The average scores of professional socialization and self-esteem were 174.87 ± 19.5 and 5.65 ± 5.10, respectively. Professional socialization was moderate in the majority of the participants (54.80%). The dimensions of “valuation and knowledge of the profession” and “management and organizational policies” had the highest and lowest averages, respectively. There was a positive and significant relationship between professional socialization and all its dimensions with self-esteem (P < 0.05). Also, there was a significant relationship between “professional socialization” and “interest in the field” as well as “the adaptation of the field to the ideas after entering the university”. Conclusions: By considering strategies, such as creating a positive attitude towards the nursing profession in students, professors can create a sufficient sense of self-esteem in different clinical settings and, consequently, strengthen professional socialization.

scholarly journals Experiences of Registered Nurses in the Care of COVID-19 Patients: A Phenomenological Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Salina ◽  
K.C. Leena
Keyword(s):  
Infection Control ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Epidemic Outbreak ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Abstract Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered coronavirus. This new virus and disease were unknown before the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is now a pandemic affecting many countries globally. The aim of this study was to examine the lived experiences of staff nurses who are involved in care of COVID-19 patients during COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala. Methods Qualitative phenomenological approach was used in this study. Data was gathered from six registered nurses through telephonic interview and video call. Moustakas's structured method of inductive data analysis was used in the study. Results Three themes were evolved from the current study. They are challenging profession, balancing profession with family, and from uncertainty to satisfaction. Discussion Findings drew from the current study highlight ever seen areas in health industry. The health workers are the major workforce in any epidemic outbreak. Concern to their health needs to be one of the higher priorities. It is ideal to talk about infection control and use of personal protective equipment. But the practical implication needs to be further explored in connection with infection control.

Theory-Practice Gap: The Experiences of Nigerian Nursing Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Titilayo Dorothy Odetola ◽  
Olusola Oluwasola ◽  
Christoph Pimmer ◽  
Oluwafemi Dipeolu ◽  
Samson Oluwayemi Akande ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
The Body ◽  
Clinical Staff ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Practice Gap ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Theory Practice Gap

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.

scholarly journals Drinking Carling Out of Stella Glasses: People and Place in the Missing Middle

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn McEwan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Housing Estate ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Missing Middle

As trends of social and economic change allow precarity to inch into the lives of those who may have been more accustomed to security (Standing, 2011, 2014), this paper addresses the response of some young people who are caught “betwixt and between” in potentially liminal states (Turner, 1967). Those whose families have undertaken intra- or intergenerational social mobility and who have made a home in a place, Ingleby Barwick in Teesside, that seems to be of them and for them—an in-between place that is seen as “not quite” middle or working class. This paper draws data from a research project that adopted a qualitative phenomenological approach to uncover the meaning of experiences for participants. Methods included focus groups and semi-structured interviews through which 70 local people contributed their thoughts, hopes, concerns, and stories about their lives now and what they aspire to for the future. Places, such as the large private housing estate in the Northeast of England on which this research was carried out, make up significant sections of the UK population, yet tend to be understudied populations, often missed by a sociological gaze attracted to extremes. It was anticipated that in Ingleby Barwick, where social mobility allows access to this relatively exclusive estate, notions of individualism and deservingness that underlie meritocratic ideology (Mendick et al., 2015; Littler, 2018) would be significant, a supposition borne out in the findings. “Making it” to Ingleby was, and continues to be, indicative to many of meritocratic success, making it “a moral place for moral people” (McEwan, 2019). Consequently, the threat then posed by economic precarity, of restricting access to the transitions and lifestyles that create the “distinction” (Bourdieu, 1984) required to denote fit to this place, is noted to be very real in a place ironically marked by many outside it as fundamentally unreal.

scholarly journals Assessment of nursing students in clinical practice - An intervention study of a modified process

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Baumgartner ◽  
Cecilia Häckter Ståhl ◽  
Katri Manninen ◽  
Ann-Marie Rydholm Hedman
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The University ◽  
Modified Assessment

Objective: To evaluate an intervention of a modified assessment process for nursing students in clinical practice and how this process was experienced by the nursing students and their supervisors.Methods: An intervention study with a descriptive approach. The data collection was conducted in two phases with a survey and follow-up group interviews. Participants were second-year nursing students and their nursing supervisors. Descriptive statistics were used for the quantitative data (survey) and qualitative content analysis for the qualitative data (tape-record and transcribed interviews). Mixed method was used to integrate all data.Findings: The survey response rate was 65% (n = 41 students) and 100% (n = 9 supervisors). Students and supervisors found the assessment tool applicable for the assessment process. Assessment through dialogue and Supportive learning environment, describe how the modified assessment process was experienced.Conclusions and implication for clinical practice: It is important that the supervisors understand the learning goals and assessment criteria and how to use the assessment tool. Clear structures based on learning goals and assessment criteria as well as their own strategies to reach their goals benefit student learning. Strategies need to be developed to facilitate the assessment process when the teachers from the university have a consulative role. The new assessment tool and changing the university teachers’ involvement can be seen as a form of professional development of the supervisors’ group as they take greater responsibility in conducting the assessment of nursing students in clinical practice.

scholarly journals Korean Nursing Students’ First Experiences of Clinical Practice in Psychiatric Nursing: A Phenomenological Study

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Sunkyung Cha ◽  
Hyunjung Moon ◽  
Eunyoung Park
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Students First ◽  
Site Staff ◽  
Fear And Anxiety

Nursing students have a more negative attitude toward psychiatric practice than other practices. In particular, Korean nursing students experience increased pressure during clinical practice in psychiatric nursing due to sociocultural and institutional influences, such as prejudices, fear, and anxiety towards mental illnesses. This study aimed to conduct an investigation on students’ first experiences of clinical practice in psychiatric nursing. Participants were 12 fourth year nursing students in South Korea. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, and data analysis was done using Colaizzi’s phenomenological method. The students’ experiences of clinical practice in psychiatric nursing could be categorized into emotional fluctuation, burnout, transformation, and growth. The results of this study show that nursing students experienced emotional fluctuation and burnout at the beginning of their clinical practice in psychiatric nursing. At the end of the clinical practice, they experienced transformation and growth. The study suggests that nursing instructors and on-site staff need to interact with nursing students to understand the nature of these first experiences and support them through teaching and field guidance.

scholarly journals Physical activity among nursing students

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leona Cilar ◽  
Nina Preložnik ◽  
Gregor Štiglic ◽  
Dominika Vrbnjak ◽  
Majda Pajnkihar
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Grounded Theory Method ◽  
The University

AbstractIntroduction. Nurses need to encourage patients to lead a healthy lifestyle, hence it is important that as nursing students they are already aware of the importance of physical activity. The purpose of the study was to investigate the physical activities of nursing students.Aim. The aim of the study was to find out in what state physical activity of nursing students is and to find out what are their main reasons for lack of physical activity.Material and methods. We conducted a cross-sectional observational study using a mixed methods design. The quantitative data was collected using the survey method with a convenience sample of 123 students and used descriptive and inferential statistics for the analysis. For the qualitative data we used a Grounded Theory Method with semi-structured interviews on purposive samples of four students.Results and conclusions. In the quantitative part of this study we found a significantly higher proportion of outdoor physical activity in comparison to indoor physical activity (p < 0.001). The qualitative part contains the main categories of physical activity implementation, as well as three sub-categories: attitude to physical activity, barriers and incentives. Nursing students do not do physical activities regularly due to lack of time, obligations at the university, time of the year and finances.

scholarly journals Technical nursing students interacting with family members of hospitalized children

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1137-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Yukari Takahashi Onishi ◽  
Circéa Amália Ribeiro ◽  
Maria Cristina Ferreira Carlos Rodrigues da Silva ◽  
Regina Issuzu Hirooka de Borba
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The City ◽  
Difficult Situations ◽  
Nursing Course

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand technical nursing students' meaning of interacting with family members of hospitalized children. Method: Symbolic Interactionism was used as the theoretical framework and Qualitative Content Analysis was the methodological procedure. A total of eight graduates from an institution situated in the city of Osasco, Sao Paulo state, participated in this study. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Results: A total of five representative themes were revealed: Dealing with difficult situations with family members; Perceiving oneself to be unprepared to interact with family members; Family members being a helpful tool; Developing strategies to obtain a good interaction with family members; and Teachers being facilitators of the interaction with family members. Final considerations: To be acquainted with this experience has led to the understanding of the need to include the theme of family care in the curriculum of the Technical Nursing Course. Additionally, the present study contributed to reflections on the importance of such knowledge for this population and to the development of future studies, as this theme has been scarcely explored in the literature.

scholarly journals The Human Cost of 'Caring' Care for Registered Nurses in Clinical Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sylvia Margaret Shona Blair
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Health Reforms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Cost ◽  
The Impact

<p>This research utilised a focus group methodology to discover what nurses in clinical practice considered 'caring' care meant for them. Six registered nurses volunteered to participate in the project. They practised over a variety of clinical settings within a public hospital, which provided both acute and elective surgical and medical services to the community, including an extensive elderly population.  Taking these important 'caring' care statements, I then explored with the group what factors in their work environment hindered or enhanced their identified 'caring' care. New Zealand nurses identified similar themes and concepts important to their 'caring' in clinical practice as did their overseas counterparts.  This study also highlighted the impact the health reforms had on individual clinical practice at this hospital. The effects of the institutional changes in response to the health reforms were far reaching at both a personal and professional level.  Caring is an important concept found in nursing practice. It has been widely documented by nurse scholars, researchers and nurse authors that care is at the core of nursing practice. Some have even referred to care as being the heart of nursing. The findings from the present research indicates the importance nurses place on caring in their day to day encounters with patients. It also demonstrates how nurses express their care and their perceptions of the importance care has in their clinical practice.</p>

scholarly journals Fathers’ role in sustainability of exclusive breastfeeding practice in post-cesarean-section mothers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tri Budiati ◽  
Seno Adjie ◽  
Jajang Gunawijaya ◽  
Setyowati Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Cesarean Section ◽  
Exclusive Breastfeeding ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Internal Support ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Background: The success of breastfeeding among post-cesarean-section mothers requires strong willingness and commitment, self-confidence, support from various professionals, and internal support (especially from their husband) and the belief and value of their family. Exclusive breastfeeding remains low in some cities such as in West Java, especially in post-cesarean-section mothers, who are influenced by certain factors. The purpose of this study is to identify husbands’ role and their support for post-cesarean-section mothers in exclusive breastfeeding.Design and Methods: This study used a qualitative phenomenological approach. with a combination of different data collection techniques: focus group discussion and in-depth interviews. Twelve husbands of post-cesarean-section mothers participated in this study. Data were analyzed by thematic content analysis.Results: Four themes were identified namely knowledge about exclusive breastfeeding, the role of the father during breastfeeding, the experience of the husband and the family in supporting breastfeeding, and Women’s lack of knowledge, inconvenience due to pain as the most impending factors of exclusive breastfeeding.Conclusion: Most fathers seem eager to be involved and assist their partners to give breastfeeding to their baby.  Furthermore, adequate support from family members, health care professionals, and employers can enable fathers to encourage and help their partners initiate and maintain exclusive breastfeeding. Fathers’ emotional, practical, and physical supports are also important factors that promote successful breastfeeding and enrich the experience of mothers.

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