The lived experience of nursing students in caring for suffering individuals

Article Abstract:

Interviewing nursing students about the issues of working with suffering patients can provide important insights that can help improve nursing education. Common themes emerged from interviews with 12 student nurses on this subject. Recall triggered intense memories of the patient as well as the nurses' own experiences with suffering loved ones. Students felt ill-prepared to cope. They felt emotionally drained and frustrated. They struggled with feelings of powerlessness and how to distance themselves without losing compassion.

Personal narratives, Suffering

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Dreams: their function in health and illness

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Nurses could use dream analysis as a powerful therapeutic tool. Dreams play out the dreamer's issues and conflicts in symbolic fashion. Thus, dream analysis could help patients deal with their illness and reach deeper levels of self-understanding. Nurses can assist in this process. They can encourage patients to record dreams and help them to understand the dream's meaning by asking open-ended questions designed to elicit more detail and help the patient interpret the meaning of the dream.

Health aspects, Dreams

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Joint appointments in practice positions

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Changes in nursing education have established opportunities to recognize the value of nursing service experience by creating the new role of the practitioner educator. Alterations in the health care setting necessitate experience leaders in advanced practice nursing. Integrating nursing faculty in the practice environment and the practitioner in the academic environment has many benefits for nursing practice and research.

College faculty, Study and teaching, Nursing, Nursing schools

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