Clinical practice in ICU contributes better learning results to nursing students and newly graduated nurses
Wang, Jiaozi Jr (2021)
Wang, Jiaozi Jr
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021122090244
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021122090244
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Background Recently, because of the full disclosure of quality nursing care in an intensive care unit (ICU), some undergraduate nursing programmes offer nursing students the opportunity of clinical practice in ICU. But the outcomes are uneven and students have very different experiences of their practice. Therefore, how to ensure the students bring safe nursing care and at the same time achieve efficient learning results has always been a good question. Task and objective The aim of this study was to collect the clinical experience of students in ICU. The purpose of this literature review was to offer information to develop mentoring nursing students who are going to clinical practice in ICU. The research question was: what is the experience of nursing students in ICU. Implementation method A comprehensive literature review was conducted and published peer-reviewed articles were selected as reliable sources, including the latest valuable research of students that participated in critical nursing care in hospitals during the COVID-19 epidemic. Classical content analysis was used to summarize the results, Hawker checklist was applied for critical appraisal. Conclusions This study demonstrated four main themes on students’ ICU experience: Discouraging challenges, rewarding achievements, professional identity and inner struggling. Taking into consideration based on the main four themes may contribute to students’ learning results in ICU.