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Swedish nursing students’ experience of stress during clinical practice in relation to clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the clinical education
School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8836-5842
School of Health, University of Borås.
School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University.
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2014 (English)In: Journal of Clinical Nursing, ISSN 0962-1067, E-ISSN 1365-2702, Vol. 23, no 15/16, p. 2264-2271Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Aims and objectives

To describe nursing students' experience of stress during clinical practice and evaluate the risk of stress in relation to the clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the clinical education.

Background

Stress during clinical practice is well documented, but there is a lack of knowledge concerning whether the clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the education make a difference.

Design

A cross-sectional study with evaluative design.

Methods

Data were collected by means of a numerical rating scale for the assessment of stress and questions about the clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the education. One hundred and eighty-four students who had completed their final year on the nursing programme at three universities in Sweden were included.

Results

Nearly half of the students (43%) experienced high level of stress during clinical practice. Measured by decision in the tree analysis, the absolute risk of stress was 57% in students with placements in hospital departments, as compared to 13% in students with placements in other clinical settings. The risk of stress increased to 71% if the students with placement in a hospital took the national clinical final examination. Performance of practice in a hospital department overcrowded with patients was also associated with increased risk of stress. The organisation of supervision and number of students at the clinical placement had an effect on the experience of stress, but did not prove to be risk factors in the analysis.

Conclusions

The risk of stress in nursing students during their clinical practice differs depending on clinical setting characteristics. The taking of the national clinical final examination could be a source of stress, but this requires further investigation.

Relevance to clinical practice

It is important that supervisors are aware that students in hospital departments overcrowded with patients are at risk of stress and may have increased need of support.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2014. Vol. 23, no 15/16, p. 2264-2271
Keywords [en]
Clinical education, clinical placement, nursing education, nursing students, risk factors, stress
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Nursing
Research subject
Nursing Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-30123DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12506ISI: 000339431800020PubMedID: 24393384OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-30123DiVA, id: diva2:666205
Available from: 2013-11-22 Created: 2013-11-22 Last updated: 2019-07-09Bibliographically approved

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