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Influencing aspects in nursing education on Swedish nursing students' choice of first work area as graduated nurses
Karolinska institutet.
2000 (English)In: Journal of Nursing Education, ISSN 0148-4834, E-ISSN 1938-2421, Vol. 39, no 5, p. 211-218Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

It is difficult to recruit RNs to positions in various areas of elder care. The aim of this study is to understand the meaning of Swedish nursing students' reasoning during education about where in the health care system they would like to work as RNs after graduation. The students were interviewed using the same guide at the end of each of their three academic years. In the second and the third year the students kept diaries about their clinical education. A phenomenological-hermeneutic method of analysis was used, and eight themes appeared vital for the students' choice of work area after graduation. The deeper interpretations of the results imply that the students received contradictory messages during the education in elder care. Students found that nurses working in this field were often isolated with no apparent support system, which in turn reinforced their own ambivalence and reluctance towards future work in elder care.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2000. Vol. 39, no 5, p. 211-218
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Nursing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-36PubMedID: 10839684OAI: oai:DiVA.org:esh-36DiVA, id: diva2:315230
Available from: 2010-04-28 Created: 2010-04-28 Last updated: 2020-06-03Bibliographically approved
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1. Nursing students' narrated, lived experiences of caring, education and the transition into nursing, focusing on care of the elderly
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Nursing students' narrated, lived experiences of caring, education and the transition into nursing, focusing on care of the elderly
1998 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The overall aim of this longitudinal research project was to elucidate and reach an understanding of influencing aspects on nursing students' choice of future work area as newly graduated nurses. The influencing aspects should be affiliated with the three-year education, the students' transition into nursing and the care of the elderly. The first study (I) concerned the amount of projected education in gerontology and geriatrics in 30 colleges of nursing and health, and the result showed a variety between colleges. Newly admitted nursing students in three colleges responded to a questionnaire. A majority of the students preferred to work in the emergency care, rather than elder care, after graduation. Phenomenological analyses of one interview theme, after one year (II), gave two phenomena; patients' helplessness and identification/nonidentification of the individual patient. Phenomenological hermeneutic analyses were carried out on all interviews and diaries provided from the three years (III-V). The findings (III) show that the rneaning of caring for elderly patients was a process from naive caring via deeper relationships with patients to an organizational perspective. The transition into nursing (IV) meant for the students a process from a natural interest in caring to the perspective of an RN, where co-operation with team members had a strong influence. The students' experiences of theoretical and clinical elder care were not positive, which meant that their reluctance to work there was reinforced (V). Content analyses about students' reasoning regarding two fictitious elderly patient cases (Vl) showed a development in reasoning in a more acute oriented case but not in a case with a confused elderly patient. Conclusions drawn imply that both the theoretical and the clinical education in gerontology and geriatrics need to be strengthened.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Norstedt, 1998. p. 97
Keywords
nursing students, elder care, longitudinal study, caring, transition into nursing, nursing education
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Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-1818 (URN)91-628-2894-0 (ISBN)
Public defence
1998-04-03, Aulan, sal Adam, Doktorsringen 12 A, Karolinska Institutet., Solna, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2012-12-06 Created: 2012-12-06 Last updated: 2020-06-03Bibliographically approved

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