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Professional Nursing Values: Accounts Of The Witnessed, Ashley N. Costello
Professional Nursing Values: Accounts Of The Witnessed, Ashley N. Costello
Honors Theses
In this research, the lived experience of nursing students in the clinical setting, specifically experiences relating to professional nursing values, were explored. This project aimed to answer the following questions: 1) How do student nurses describe observations of professional nursing values exhibited or violated by licensed nurses during the students’ clinical rotations? (2) What meaning do student nurses’ assign to and extract from their observations, particularly as it relates to how students believe it will influence their own future nursing practice? This research was qualitative with a phenomenological approach. Eight participants enrolled in senior level nursing clinical courses at The …
An Analysis Of Moral Distress Experienced Among Nursing Students, Katherine Merchent Johnson
An Analysis Of Moral Distress Experienced Among Nursing Students, Katherine Merchent Johnson
Honors Theses
The purpose of this senior honors thesis was to obtain descriptive data about the moral distress experienced by nursing students during clinical rotations in nursing school. This senior honors thesis is significant to nursing because, although moral distress is a well-researched topic, little to no information has been gathered regarding moral distress among the nursing student sub-culture. Nursing students are likely one of the most important groups in which moral distress needs to be explored, because experiencing it could lead to fewer people wanting to become a part of the nursing profession. The research design used quantitative methodology. The approach …