The Nursing Students' Experience of Psychiatric Practice in South Korea

Attitudes and stigma toward mental health in nursing students: A systematic review

“…Likewise, various studies confirm that health care professionals also acquire negative and discriminatory attitudes toward mental health, which can determine the treatment and quality of care given to people affected by a mental health problem . Similarly, nursing, a specialization that is particularly undervalued compared with other health care fields, is also prone to stigmatizing attitudes in mental health care …”

“…These negative attitudes can be passed on to nursing students during their higher education . However, these students believe that the knowledge they acquire over time steers them toward care for, and an understanding of, the emotions manifested by the mentally ill .…”

Korean Nursing Students’ First Experiences of Clinical Practice in Psychiatric Nursing: A Phenomenological Study

“…Transformation is defined by a transformation of maturity, which nursing students experience through clinical practice in psychiatric nursing regardless of whether there is a good location, good people, and good psychiatric nursing. This form of change differs from the positive attitudinal changes towards the psychiatric unit encouraged by high-tech hospitals, professional psychiatric nursing, and meeting good patients during the nursing students' first clinical practices in psychiatric nursing [12]. Therefore, transformation is akin to maturation, reflected by students acquiring new techniques, adopting humanitarian behavior, and changing attitudes towards psychiatric patients [8].…”

“…Future research should consider the clinical practice experiences of nursing students in other contexts, identifying the specific sociocultural and institutional factors that shape these experiences. Clinical practice in psychiatric nursing in Korea is worth two to four credits for those in their third or fourth year, and consists of programs two to four weeks long [12]. The students participate in clinical practices in: psychiatric units of general, university, national, and public hospitals; private mental hospitals; community mental health centers.…”

“…A recent study showed the importance of the therapeutic environment, the influence of nurses’ capabilities on the quality of the nursing provided, and the relationship between clinical practice and nursing knowledge [ 9 ]. Nursing students’ experiences were further affected by environmental factors, such as older facilities and negative and positive situations [ 12 ].…”