Lived Experiences of Nursing Students on their Clinical Practicum among Third-year Bachelor’s Program at Borommarajonani Nursing College, Uttaradit
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Management of nursing practicum is an arrangement for nursing students to practice professional experience and nursing skills. There are many issues that may be occurs and obstacles during practice in a clinic. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences and methods of adaptation/methods to cope with problems in practicing on their clinical practicum in a third-year bachelor’s program at Borommarajonani Nursing College, Uttaradit. Descriptive qualitative research was undertaken through this study. The key informant is a third-year nursing student who completed an Adults Nursing Practicum I within 1-3 months. The data were collected by using Semi-Structured interview and analyzed by using thematic analysis. The results found one main theme as follow: 1) Adapting and coping with problems during practice and four sub-themes. Adaptation and coping during training in four stages were: 1) alarm stage 2) overwhelmed stage 3) adjustment stage and 4) learning phase. It also found a factor promoting adjustment included attitude, knowledge, relationship in peer and supervisor and mentor. In addition, these results can assist nursing student progress through professional nursing experiences on their clinical practicum in the future.
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