J Korean Acad Nurs Adm.  2015 Mar;21(2):154-163. 10.11111/jkana.2015.21.2.154.

Affecting Factors on Stress of Clinical Practice in Nursing Students

• Lee AK
• You HS
• Park IH

• KMID: 2321297
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2015.21.2.154

Abstract

PURPOSE
This descriptive study was done to identify factors that influence stress related to clinical practice for nursing students.
METHODS
Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 278 students from two nursing colleges located in G metropolitan city and one nursing college in C region.
RESULTS
The factors that most influenced stress for the nursing students during their clinical practice were critical thinking disposition, clinical competence, year, and gender. Especially, the result showed that higher critical thinking disposition and clinical competence correlated with lower stress in clinical practice.
CONCLUSION
The results indicate that improving nursing students' critical thinking ability and clinical competence would help to relieve stress during clinical practice and increase the ability to cope with stress efficiently. The development of a variety of teaching and learning strategies and education in both theoretical and clinical practice education would be necessary to achieve this goal.

Keyword

Students; Nursing; Clinical practice; Stress; Psychological

MeSH Terms

Clinical Competence
Education
Humans
Learning
Nursing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Students, Nursing*
Thinking

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