A qualitative research on the feelings of nursing masters in initial stage of clinical practice / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To describe the feelings,career development needs and the coping styles of stress experience of nurses with master's degree within one year after graduation.Methods The semistructured in-depth interview was conducted in 15 nurses with master's degree individually.The data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis method and the themes were abstractod.Results Three themes were extracted,including feelings,their career development needs and coping styles of stress.The nurses with master's degree reported feelings of heavy work pressure; lack of a sense of accomplishment; strong sense of loss.Their career development needs included improvement of professional knowledge and clinical skills; organizational supports; improvement of professional English and received a doctor' s degree.There were three main coping styles of stress:adjusting attitude and self role orientation; competence improvement; adjusting interpersonal relationship.Conclusions Nursing masters suffer from heavy pressure in clinical practice within one year after graduation.They have some occupation development needs.Nursing managers should explore positive and effective methods to relieve the nurses' stress and ratioually use and actively guide nursing masters,and provide direction and space for achieving their occupation value.