Honors Theses
Date of Award
2009
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Nursing
First Advisor
Jennie Gunn
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the experience of nursing students in situations involving the suffering of a patient. Through analysis of interviews of senior nursing students, six themes were gathered. The themes discovered were: Student nurses in the face of suffering, desire knowledge and support from faculty: allowing time for student interaction and sharing prior to and post experience is important; Student nurses in most cases have prior experiences with suffering that color the student nurse professional view of suffering; Student nurses stay busy in the face of suffering, feel helpless and without interventions, however, students do what they can; Student nurses may perceive others are suffering, but recognize that suffering is unique to the individual; Student nurses express a need to be different from the hardened attitudes of some nurses and also regret for the way things sometimes are; and Student nurses believe suffering is whatever an individual thinks it is.
Recommended Citation
Shivers, Molly Marie, "Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Patient Suffering" (2009). Honors Theses. 2118.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2118
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