The Study of the Nursing Students' Lived Experience of Clinical Practice at the Intensive Care Unit / 성인간호학회지
Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing
;
: 373-382, 2003.
Article
in Korean
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| ID: wpr-211446
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of nursing students' on-site clinical experience at intensive care unit(ICU), which will help on developing fundamental tool to enhance the effect of their clinical practice.METHOD:
Van Manens hermeneutic-phenomenological method has been used to analyze the data. Participants consisted of 74 third-year nursing students who performed the clinical practice at an ICU in C university hospital. The students got the group interviews and kept the clinical diaries. Data was collected from series of group interviews and contents of the students clinical diaries.RESULT:
Major concerns related to students clinical practice were found as follows [being nervous about unfamiliar machines and situations], [being frustrated about the patients], [feeling of helplessness], [being stupefied from witnessing a death], [realizing the importance of health], [realizing individual patient's precious value through family's love], [realizing the importance of treating a patient as human being], [realizing the differences between theory and practice], [modelizing two aspects of nursing professional and personal], [readiness to become a capable nurse].CONCLUSION:
We are able to obtain in-depth understandings about the nursing students lived experience of clinical practice at the ICU. Based upon this, there is a need to develop a better nursing intervention enhance the effectiveness of the nursing students clinical practice.
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Main subject:
Students, Nursing
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Interviews as Topic
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Nursing
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Critical Care
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Intensive Care Units
Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing
Year:
2003
Type:
Article
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