The Study of the Nursing Students' Lived Experience of Clinical Practice at the Intensive Care Unit.
- Author:
Kyung Sook PARK
1
;
Yun Young HWANG
;
Eun Hee CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Nursing student;
Clinical practice;
Lived experience
- MeSH:
Humans;
Intensive Care Units*;
Critical Care*;
Interviews as Topic;
Nursing*;
Students, Nursing
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing
2003;15(3):373-382
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
