Student nurses' experiences of anxiety in the clinical setting.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-2011
Abstract
It is known that some student nurses who experience anxiety during clinical experiences leave nursing education programs. If nurse educators can better understand the anxiety of student nurses during clinical experience, they will be able to develop educational interventions to minimize students' anxiety. Decreasing anxiety has a two-fold effect. First, when anxiety is decreased, learning may be increased. Second, decreasing anxiety may help alleviate the nursing shortage because more students complete their nursing education. This qualitative phenomenological study examines student nurses' perception of anxiety in the clinical setting. Situated cognition learning theory is the theoretical framework. The main method of data collection is unstructured face-to-face interviews with 7 student nurses. The data was analyzed using a thematic analysis. The themes are reported in the rich descriptive words of the subjects. Implications for practice are discussed.
Volume
31
Issue
8
First Page
785
Last Page
789
ISSN
1532-2793
Published In/Presented At
Melincavage S. M. (2011). Student nurses' experiences of anxiety in the clinical setting. Nurse education today, 31(8), 785–789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2011.05.007
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
21641701
Department(s)
Patient Care Services / Nursing
Document Type
Article