英文摘要 |
The purposes of this qualitative study are to describe the lived experiences of junior student nurses and understand their coping behaviors during the first stage of Medical-Surgical nursing clinical practice. The researcher selected twelve subjects who attended first stage Medical-Surgical nursing practice by purposive sampling. Data were collected by conducting one-hour in-depth interview, one week after clinical practice. The verbal and non-verbal behaviors expressed by the students during interview were then audiotaped and recorded in a narrative process-recording. By means of content analysis, the verbal behaviors of subjects were systematically analyzed and categorized. The results show that the lived experiences of the students can be categorized as follows: sense of uncertainty about clinical practice situation, threat to the sense of physical-psycho reconstruction, trapped within suffering due to learning stress, falling into predicament as to the hurt of self-esteem, sense of mis-match about clinical practice situations, sense of accomplishment and becoming a new self. The coping behaviors expressed by these students can be categorized as follows: trying to confirm and manage their own clinical practice situation, striving to improve the professional competence, engaging in equipping and maintaining self, sticking it out by self-empowerment, being bold in learning and growing to maturity from nursing profession, reviewing and integrating of clinical practice experiences into self as the nursing students. The result of this study can be used as references for guiding students during first stage of medical- surgical nursing clinical practice. |