Clinical Practice Stress and Coping Experience of Men in Nursing as a Student.

Ju,  Sejin; Choi,  Jung Hyun; Kim,  Chunmi; Oh,  Doo Nam; Park,  Myung Sook

doi:2018.27.2.110

J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs > Volume 27(2); 2018 > Article

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2018;27(2):110-122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2018.27.2.110 Published online July 4, 2018.

Clinical Practice Stress and Coping Experience of Men in Nursing as a Student.

Sejin Ju, Jung Hyun Choi, Chunmi Kim, Doo Nam Oh, Myung Sook Park

¹Department of Nursing, Namseoul University, Cheonan, Korea. lovepdd@nsu.ac.kr
²Department of Nursing, Sunmoon University, Asan, Korea.
³Department of Nursing, Hoseo University, Asan, Korea.
⁴Department of Nursing, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to understand the stress coping experience of men nursing students in clinical practice. METHODS: In-depth interview were done using semi-structured questionnaire with 25 men nursing students taking clinical practice. Data were analyzed using grounded theory. RESULTS: Core category of coping experience of these nursing students was ‘a rolling stone’. Students' coping strategies were ‘women centered environment’, ‘physical difficulty’, ‘lack of sufficient role models’, and ‘age related’. Helping components for their coping behaviors were ‘individual characteristics’, ‘attitude to men nursing student’, ‘one's vision of nursing’, and ‘gender equality in nursing culture’. The consequence of this phenomenon were ‘a sense of belonging’, ‘building gender free nursing identity’, ‘nursing pride acquisition’ and ‘dream of nursing expert’. CONCLUSION: Men nursing students emphasized ‘growing as a mature nursing student’ in clinical practice.

Key Words: Men; Students, Nursing; Adaptation, psychological; Qualitative research