Nursing Students’ Experience in an Intensive and Emergency Care Practicum
Keywords:
practicum experience, intensive and emergency care, nursing students, qualitative researchAbstract
Objective: To describe the experience of nursing students undertaking an intensive
and emergency care practicum.
Design: Qualitative research.
Methodology: This study was conducted on 13 purposively sampled fourth-year
nursing students having passed a critical and emergency care practicum in intensive and
emergency care units. Data were collected through tape-recorded in-depth interviews and
analysed using the content analysis method.
Results: The participants described their critical and emergency care practicum
experienceasinvolvingtwomainissues. Thefrstwaspre-practicumfeelingsandexperience,
namely, their fear and anxiety about what could happen and whether or not they had suffcient
knowledge. The second was post-practicum feelings and experience, which concerned two
issues: (a) nursing process development and (b) cognitive and academic development.
Nursing process development involved a correct understanding of nurses’ roles, patients’ and
their families’ needs, and the truths about living and dying with dignity. Cognitive and
academic development concerned integration of bodies of knowledge, which enhanced the
students’ memory. In this respect, it was also found that monitoring teachers who understood
both the students and the practicum and shared their work experience were an influential
factor in the students’ training, development, knowledge integration, and nursing skill
enhancement.
Recommendations: A nursing practicum in intensive and emergency care units
provided students with valuable experience that could be integrated with their nursing
profession. The fndings of this study could also contribute to the improvement of bachelor
of nursing science programmes. More emphasis could be placed on integration of intensive
and emergency care, to help students foster a deeper understanding of their roles in caring for
patients and their relatives.
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