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The Coping Experience of Nursing Students in Clinical Practice: Trying to be a Meaningful Presence (간호학생들의 임상실습 대처 경험: '의미 있는 존재가 되기 위해 노력하기')

  • Oh, Doo Nam;Um, Young-Rhan;Kim, Chunmi;Ju, Sejin;Choi, Jung Hyun;Park, Myung Sook
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.430-440
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the coping experience of nursing students in clinical practice. Methods: In-depth interview was done with semi-structured questionnaire on 32 nursing students taking clinical practice. Data was analyzed through the grounded theory. Results: Core category of coping experience of nursing students was 'trying to be a meaningful presence' while clinical practice. Students' coping strategies were 'overcoming inexperience', 'receiving the recognition from the clinical instructors', and 'governing mind and body'. Helping components for their coping behaviors were 'support from people', 'personal experience before clinical practice', 'dynamics with partners'. Through the coping experience during clinical practice, nursing students became mature and confirmed their identities as student nurses. Conclusion: Nursing students taking clinical practice tried to be a meaningful presence.

Experiences of Critical Care Nurses Caring for Dying Patients (중환자실 간호사의 임종 환자 돌봄 경험)

  • Seol, Eun-Mi;Koh, Chin-Kang
    • Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2018
  • Purpose : This study aimed to develop an in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the experiences of critical care nurses caring for dying patients. Method : Eleven critical care nurses with experience in caring for dying patients were recruited from four tertiary hospitals. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were conducted between November 2016 and March 2017. The transcribed data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis to identify major themes and sub-themes that represented the experiences of critical care nurses. Results : The following six themes, and twelve sub-themes, were identified: (1) the gap between expectation and reality, (2) a distorted meaning of death, (3) repeated emotional pain and stress, (4) finding a solution alone, (5) sublimation into mission and calling, and (6) integration into one's own life. Conclusion : This study found that critical care nurses experience various psychological difficulties while caring for dying patients, and they made efforts on their own to overcome them. These findings are expected to inform the development of specialized programs to support critical care nurses to tackle these challenges, create guidelines on caring for dying patients, and help promote death education.

Traditional Knowledge of Plants Used for River Fishing in Local Communities of North Jeolla Province, Korea (전북 지역사회에서 천렵에 이용된 식물들의 전통지식에 관한 연구)

  • Cheon, Inok;Song, Mi-Jang;Kim, Hyun;Lee, Ki Hoon;Yoo, Young Joon
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.675-681
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    • 2015
  • This study investigates traditional knowledge of plants used for river fishing in local communities of North Jeolla Province, Korea. Data were collected using the participatory rural appraisal method based on interviews, informal meetings, open and group discussions, and overt observations with semi-structured questionnaires. Field investigations were conducted at 19 sites from July 2008 to April 2010. Interviews included 37 key informants (16 men and 21 women) who lived more than 50 years in the area. The average age of the informants was 83 (range = 60 to 96). The analysis recorded seven species, namely Albizia julibrissin Durazz., Juglans mandshurica Maxim., Perilla frutescens var. japonica (Hassk.) H. Hara, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Spach, Zanthoxylum piperitum (L.) DC., and Styrax japonicus Siebold and Zucc..

Thrown in a Different World: The Later Lives of Korean Elderly in an American Nursing Home

  • Suh, Eunyoung E.;Park, Yeon Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.329-337
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: Increasing numbers of Koreans have immigrated to the United States since the late 1960s. The first generation of Korean immigrants or their parents become old and institutionalized in American nursing home setting. Although the Korean elders would experience many cultural differences in the nursing home, no study to date has investigated their everyday lives on how they live through their later lives within a different cultural environment from their own. Methods: Using ethnographic methodology, the purpose of this paper was to illustrate Korean residents' experiences and daily lives in a nursing home located in an east coastal city in the U.S. Participant observation, filed notes, semi-structured interviews were utilized by means of data collection. Eighteen Korean residents were observed, and five of them and two nurses participated in informal qualitative interviews. Results: The overriding theme from the findings is "thrown in a different world." Three sub-themes include "constant struggles in making themselves understood", "dealing with culturally inappropriate nursing care," and "maintaining their own ways of life". Conclusions: The discovered themes reflect culturally isolated lives of the participants and open a venue for designing a culturally congruent nursing care for Korean elders living in the U.S. nursing homes.

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Personal and Socio-Cultural Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening in Iran, Patient and Provider Perceptions: a Qualitative Study

  • Bayrami, Roghieh;Taghipour, Ali;Ebrahimipour, Hossein
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.3729-3734
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    • 2015
  • Background: Although cervical cancer is preventable and early screening might decrease the associated mortality, challenges faced by the women and health care providers can postpone early detection. This qualitative study aimed to establish patient and provider perceptions about personal and socio-cultural barriers for cervical cancer screening in Mashhad, Iran. Materials and Methods: In the present study, which was conducted in 2012, eighteen participants, who were selected purposefully, participated in individual in-depth, semi-structured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using conventional content analysis and Atlas-Ti software. Results: One theme and two categories were derived from data including: cognitive/behavioral factors (lack of a community-based approach to cervical cancer, lack of awareness, wrong attitude and lack of health seeking behaviors) and socio/cultural issues (socio-cultural invasion, mismatch between tradition, modernity and religious, extra marital relationships and cultural taboos). Conclusions: Providing community based approach education programs and employing social policy are needed for preventing of cervical cancer in Iran.

The Using Tutoring Program Experience of Low-income Youth (저소득층 청소년의 튜터링 프로그램 이용 경험)

  • Lee, Minsook;Yang, Sonam;Choo, Gyoseon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.455-466
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    • 2014
  • This study is to understand the experience of low-income youth participated tutoring program. From June to August 2013, semi-structured in-depth interviews with 9 youth and documents were used to collect data. Constant Comparative analysis of how young people experience and respected, and growing, preparing me for the future analysis. Self-esteem and academic achievement through tutoring has been increased positive social relationships was able to form a bond. Participants for further study and career began to worry seriously, like a tutor who come to resemble the tutor himself the goal is to meet the youth was found to be preparing to establish.

A Qualitative Study on Responsible Tour Operators' Perception and Operation Status (공정관광 운영자의 인식과 공정관광 운영 현황 분석 - 심층면접을 통한 영역분석을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Kyung-Hee;Kang, Sung-Jin
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2015
  • Responsible tourism attracting worldwide attention has supported local economy and community development as a type of alternative tourism. This study explored the perception toward fairness in tourism and operation status of responsible tour operators in South Korea by conducting in-depth interviews with probe questions. Ten responsible tour operators were interviewed with a semi-structured interview questionnaire for one upto two hours. From the interview data, six themes were identified as difficulties of responsible tour operators: lack of manpower, advertising and promotion, absence of marketing strategy, regulation, lack of budget and lack of recognition of responsible tourism. As government support identified through the interviews, there are the followings seven themes: a low entry barrier market, investment in human resources, resource utilization, community-based policies, connection with local produce, community support and connection system of responsible travel agencies with intermediate support organizations at a local level, The findings of this paper implicate the underlying subject of responsible tourism from a tour operators' perspective.

Ecotourism Carrying Capacity and the Potentiality of the Safari Park of Bangladesh

  • Masum, Kazi Mohammad;Al Mamun, Abdullah;Rahman, Zahed Mohammad Malekur;Rahman, Md. Motlubur;Newaz, Md. Shah;Redowan, Mohammad
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.292-299
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    • 2013
  • The study was undertaken to assess the tourist's carrying capacity and to explore ecotourism potential of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park, the only safari park of Bangladesh. Carrying capacity was assessed both from physical and social aspect. On the other hand, 250 visitors were interviewed with semi structured questionnaire for ecotourism prospect evaluation along with some secondary data. The total daily-allowed visit was 17,300 with rotation coefficient of 3.46. Maximum daily average numbers of tourists were relatively below the physical carrying capacity of the Park (5,000). The social carrying capacity was 4.38 persons per day. As there are different categories of visitors, their choice of encounters and number of expected encounters also varied. Each year, the total tourist's number varied significantly ($p{\leq}0.05$). That proved the safari park had immense tourist prospect. 85 percent visitors were from lower and middle class family as entrance fees and other fees inside were very cheap in relation to other private amusement place. The ecological perspective of the park will remain unaltered if the carrying capacities of the area are followed with sustainability. Therefore, it is the proper time for taking appropriate decision.

Investigating Elementary School Teachers' Internal Factors on Science Experiment Activity (초등과학 수업에서 실험 활동에 대한 교사들의 내적 요인 조사)

  • Lim, Jae-Keun;Lee, So-Ree;Yang, Il-Ho;Lee, Yun-Kyoung
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal factors whether teachers execute experiments at the science classes in the elementary school. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were performed with 9 elementary school teachers who have served for more than three years. In-depth interviews were performed individually and all the interviews were recorded. Data sources were analyzed by grounded theory. The results were as follows: The internal factors that they did experiments at the science classes were science teaching faiths in experiment, self confidence in experiment, interest in science. and the internal factors that they did not experiment at the science classes were lack of science content knowledge, lack of science education knowledge, memory of failure at experiment, and so on. The investigation results imply inquiry activities should be more strengthened in elementary teacher education program and pre-service teacher curriculum. And it needs to give a materials of receiving information and guidance detailed about the experiments.

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The Experience of Nursing Staff on the Dementia Patients′ Aggressive Behavior (간호제공자들의 치매노인 공격행동 경험에 대한 연구)

  • 오진주
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.293-306
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    • 2000
  • Providing care to the dementia elderly with behavioral problem is a major issue in nursing homes today. This study was aimed to explore the nursing staffs′ response to aggressive dementia patients, and the effect that the aggressive behavior had on Nsgstaff. The interviews used a semi-structured questionnaire are were carried out from May to July, 1999. The subjects were 23 nursing personnel working in the nursing homes for dementia elderly. The result are as follows; 1. The types of aggressive behavior cited by the subjects was "physical", "linguistic", and "sexual". 2. The factors that caused the behavior were "symptoms of disease", "under- conditioning", "context of nursing care", "unsatisfied need", "relationship to other patients", "change of outer environment", and "invasion of one′s own privacy". 3. The response of the subjects were "unhappiness", "stress", "anger", "exaggeration", "anxiety", and "fear". 4. The management strategies listed by nursing personnel used to alleviate aggressive behavior were "ignorance" "patience" "leaving the area" "soothing sounds" "verbal punishment" "restriction and isolation" and "various management skill appliance" "adaptation". 5. The effect that aggressive behavior and were "disturbance of relationship to elderly" "decline in the amount and quality of nursing care" "interruption of task performance" "job exhaustion" "desire to leave the job" "physical impact" "stress on the cognition of others" "anxiety about health and one own future" "interference to family life′. The findings of this study will be useful in understanding the difficulties of nursing personnel when confronting the aggressive behavior of dementia partients. It also is useful as basic data in preparing efficient intervention program for these difficulties.

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