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KMID : 0607320200290040285
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Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
2020 Volume.29 No. 4 p.285 ~ p.295
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Nursing Students’ Perception of Mental Disorders in the Clinical Practice of Psychiatric Nursing
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Son Su-Kyung
Park Eun-Young
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore nursing students’ perception of mental disorders in psychiatric clinicalnursing.
Methods: This qualitative study used semi-structured individual interviews to understand the nursingstudents’ perspectives on mental disorders. There were 12 Korean nursing student participants who had completed90 hours of clinical practice in psychiatric nursing over 10 days. The data was collected and analyzed by inductivecontent analysis.
Results: The findings consisted of four themes and ten subthemes. The nursing students’perspectives classified mental disorders as being “dangerous”, “abnormal”, “not concerned”, and “not muchdifferent from others”.
Conclusion: The findings suggest that nursing instructors and on-site staff, includingpsychiatric nurses, need to understand nursing students’ perspectives of mental disorders in their first psychiatricnursing practice. The understanding of nursing students’ perception towards mental disorders may be effective inimproving interaction with the nursing students and supporting them through clinical teaching and guidance.
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KEYWORD
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Mental disorders, Nursing students, Perception, Psychiatric nursing, Qualitative research
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