Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of nursing students’ on-side 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 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」,「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 humanbeing」,「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.
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