1. Non-nursing tasks as experienced by nursing students : Findings from a phenomenological interpretative study
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Palese, Alvisa, Gnech, Denise, Pittino, Daniel, Capretta, Franco, Cossalter, Ornella, Tonet, Saverio, Pais Dei Mori, Luigi, Grosso, Silvia, Palese, Alvisa, Gnech, Denise, Pittino, Daniel, Capretta, Franco, Cossalter, Ornella, Tonet, Saverio, Pais Dei Mori, Luigi, and Grosso, Silvia
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BACKGROUND: During their clinical learning experience, students are exposed to the nursing profession as a powerful structural reality, experiencing the so-called professional socialisation, a process recognised as the basis of professional identity. Inside this process, students progressively acknowledge their professional identity as being composed of several competencies and, among these, also non-nursing tasks. OBJECTIVES: To explore non-nursing tasks in the context of nursing students' clinical learning experiences. DESIGN: An interpretative phenomenological study design was performed and carried out in 2016. The COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative (COREQ) research principles were used in reporting study methods and findings. SETTING: Two Italian Bachelor of Nursing degree programmes located in Northern Italy. PARTICIPANTS: Students attending their nursing programmes who a) had successfully passed one or more theoretical examinations; b) had one or more clinical learning experiences in varied contexts (e.g. hospital, community); c) were attending the 1st, 2nd or 3rd year, and d) were willing to participate, were interviewed with an open-ended, face-to-face, audio-recorded interview. METHODS: A thematic analysis was performed. RESULTS: Participating students (n = 18) were between 20 and 25 years old and were attending the 1st to the 3rd (and final) academic year. Non-nursing tasks were experienced by them according to three main themes: a) "Being out of the scope of the learning experience," b) "Being forced by external and internal forces," and c) "Dealing with mixed outcomes by looking for a compromise." All students have reported learning to perform non-nursing tasks by shadowing clinical nurses and also practising these tasks by themselves. Internal and external forces prompted students to perform non-nursing tasks, which were recognised as having positive, negative, and neutral effects on themselves and on their learning outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: N
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- 2019
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