Exposure to Violence and Coping Behavior during the Clinical Practice of Nursing Students

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate violence experiences and coping behaviors of nursing students when they were doing clinical practice. Data were collected from 250 nursing students from 10th of November to 10th of December in 2014 using questionnaires. 231 questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. 98.7% of the subject have experienced violence. Most frequently mentioned setting where violences were experienced was psychiatric unit, abusers were patient. Most frequent violence type was verbal abuse(97.4%) followed by physical threatening(76.2%). Most frequent coping behavior was enduring(87.8%) followed by avoiding(83.2%). In this study, most of nursing students experienced violence during the clinical practice. They need to be better protected from violence during the clinical practice. It is needed various active effort and programs to prevent violence and to help students cope more against violence in their practice.

Nursing students’ experiences of violence during a clinical practicum: A literature analysis

“…종교에서는 실습 학생이 경험하는 언어적 폭력이 종교가 있는 경우에 유의하게 높았고 [13], 그와는 반대로 일부 결과에서는 언어적 폭력이 종교가 있는 경우에 유의하게 낮았다 [14,35]. [18]. 학년에 따라서는 4학년이 3학년보다 언어적 폭력, 폭력, 폭력 경험에 대한 정서반응이 유의하게 높았다 [18,34,37] [34].…”

“…Hewett [44] [3,4,11,12,16,18,19,[30][31][32]37]. 영국의 Hunter 등 연구 [45] [12,29], 학업소진 [11], 실습만족 등과 개인적 정서반응인 스트레 스 [13], 우울 [16,30], 자아존중감 [19], 회복력 [19] [13,18,36]. 이는 학년이 올 라갈수록 폭력을 더 경험하면서 폭력에 대해 인지한 결과로, Cho [48], Kim [8]과 Hwang [46]…”