Iranian Nursing Students' Experience of Stressors in Their First Clinical Experience

The first clinical experience is a turning point in the educational journey of nursing students as it marks the beginning of their professional development. This experience is often stressful for students. This study was conducted mainly to research, describe and interpret nursing students' per...

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Published in:Journal of professional nursing 2017-05, Vol.33 (3), p.250-257
Main Authors: Rafati, Foozieh, Nouhi, Esmat, Sabzehvari, Sakineh, Dehghan-Nayyeri, Nahid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Clinical Competence - standards
Clinical environment
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Female
Humans
Iran
Male
Nursing
Nursing student
Phenomenology
Preceptorship
Stress, Psychological
Stressor
Students, Nursing - psychology
Young Adult
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Summary:The first clinical experience is a turning point in the educational journey of nursing students as it marks the beginning of their professional development. This experience is often stressful for students. This study was conducted mainly to research, describe and interpret nursing students' perceptions of stressors in the clinical environment in their first clinical experience. The present phenomenological study selected seven nursing students through purposive and snow balling sampling and questioned them in semi-structured interviews. The data acquired were analyzed by Colaizzi's method. The following themes emerged in this study: 1- the sense of inadequacy, 2- being ignored, 3- ineffective communication, 4- prevailing sadness and 5- ambiguity. The results of the present study showed that nursing students experience several sources of stress in their first clinical experiences. Hence nursing administrators should diligently evaluate and rectify nursing students' clinical stressors. •Discomforts in patient cause stress in nursing students.•The sense of inadequacy is the main stress in the novice nursing students.•Nursing students are ignored in their first clinical experience by the treatment team.
ISSN:8755-7223
1532-8481
DOI:10.1016/j.profnurs.2016.09.003