Korean Journal of Adult Nursing (성인간호학회지)
- Volume 15 Issue 3
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- Pages.373-382
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- 2003
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- 1225-4886(pISSN)
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- 2288-338X(eISSN)
The Study of the Nursing Students' Lived Experience of Clinical Practice at the Intensive Care Unit
간호학생의 중환자실 임상실습 체험 연구
- Park, Kyung-Sook (Dept. of Nursing, Chung-Ang University) ;
- Hwang, Yun-Young (Dept. of Nursing, Cheju Halla College) ;
- Choi, Eun-Hee (Head Nurse of Intensive Care Unit, Chung-Ang University Hospital)
- Received : 2002.12.20
- Accepted : 2003.08.25
- Published : 2003.09.30
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 humanbein g", "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.