STUDY ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NURSING STUDENTS’ CLINICAL PRACTICE STRESS AND CHANGES IN PERCEIVED NURSE IMAGES

Yu-Kyung Park*

ABSTRACT

This is a descriptive correlation study for examining the effect of nurse’s images perceived by nursing students on their clinical practice stress. The subjects include a total of 184 nursing students, among those enrolled in the C University located in the U metropolitan, who listened to an explanation about the objective and purport of this study and agreed to participate in the questionnaire survey. Data had been collected from 07 to 31, Jul., 2020. The resulting data were analyzed with t-test, ANOVA, Scheff's test and Pearson's correlation coefficients, by using SPSS 21.0. The findings showed that the average score of the clinical practice stress was 2.62 (±0.49) out of 5, and that of a practical work burden was highest (2.94, ±0.65), followed by the practical education environment (2.94, ±0.65), among the sub-factors of the clinical practice stress. The nurse images perceived by nursing students had negative correlations with the clinical practice stress(-.40 <.001).

Keywords: clinical practice, stress, nursing students, nurse images.