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Nursing students' experience of moral distress in clinical settings: A phenomenological study.
- Source :
- Nursing Open; Mar2024, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p1-10, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Aim: To explore nursing students' moral distress (MD) experiences in clinical settings. Design: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) design was employed. Methods: Purposive sampling was used. In‐depth semi‐structured face‐to‐face interviews were conducted from December 2020 to June 2021 with nursing students who were taking the internship course in clinical settings. Data analysis was conducted following Dickman et al.'s (1989) method. Results: Ten nursing students participated in this study. Three main themes were identified, including (1) negative learning environments, (2) internal disgust and (3) threats to professional identity. Conclusion: Findings showed that value conflict, lack of knowledge of ethical standards and its application, and unprofessional approaches result in negative environmental learning perceptions from the nursing students. Therefore, due to being unable to change the situation, they start to feel guilt and shame and, as a result, decide to escape the problem instead of managing it. These feelings lead to internal disgust. This issue indicates the importance of improving the knowledge and perception of these situations. Thus, nursing students must be prepared for the real world, where their ideals are constantly challenged. MDs were experienced as threats to dignity, inequality, distrust, and change of mentality towards nursing, characterised as threats to professional identity. It is suggested to inquire about the process of nursing students' resiliency in morally disturbing situations to deduce the suitable approach for clinical education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PSYCHOLOGY of college students
PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience
PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
QUALITATIVE research
RESEARCH funding
DATA analysis
INTERVIEWING
INTERNSHIP programs
EQUALITY
JUDGMENT sampling
EMOTIONS
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
EXPERIENCE
STUDENTS
ETHICS
THEMATIC analysis
RESEARCH methodology
GUILT (Psychology)
BACCALAUREATE nursing education
STUDENT attitudes
PHENOMENOLOGY
AVERSION
SHAME
COMPARATIVE studies
NURSING students
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20541058
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Nursing Open
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176335619
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.2141