Nursing students' experience during their practicum in an intensive care unit: A qualitative meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical practicum provides nursing students with more opportunities to learn their professional knowledge and develop basic nursing skills. Intensive care unit (ICU) is often used as one of the clinical practicum departments for nursing students. Due to the characteristic fast-paced working environments, high acuity of patient care, and technical complexities of an ICU, nursing students are more susceptible to experiencing stress and lack of confidence in these settings, which hinders their professionalization and affects patient care.

Objective

The study aimed to summarize and evaluate the nursing students' experience in an ICU during their practicum and to provide a supportive ICU clinical practicum environment for them. One of the main objectives was to increa

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556851 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature