Faktore wat verhoed dat studente psigiatriese verpleegkunde as loopbaan kies

[摘要] English: Several research studies suggest that final year nursing students do not consider psychiatric nursing as a popular career option. There is an international and widespread concern about the nursing shortages in psychiatry. The demand for psychiatric services continues to grow and there is a need for strategies to recruit nurses for this specialization. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that prevent undergraduate nursing students from choosing psychiatric nursing as a career. A qualitative, explorative and descriptive research design was used. Data was collected through the Nominal Group Technique. A sample of convenience consisted of nursing students from the School of Nursing from the University of the Free State as well as the Free State School of Nursing. This unit of analysis comprised of four nominal groups. Two of the groups were from the School of Nursing at the University of the Free State, of which each had eight members. The other two groups were from the Free State School of Nursing and comprised alternatively of five and six members. The four nominal groups were managed by an experienced facilitator. The following main causal categories emerged from the content analysis of the data, presented in the order that they were prioritized: Personal factors, working environment, unprofessional behaviour, learning environment and an unclassified category. Each category was divided into relevant themes. The themes in the category of personal factors included the loss of skills, emotional draining, poor prognosis of the patients, emotionally over-involvement, limited career opportunities and career choice. Significant of the working environment was the participants' opinion that psychiatry was unsafe and boring. Noteworthy in the category of unprofessional behaviour was the lack of professional discipline and the abuse of patients reported by the participants. The learning environment was depicted as stagnant and rife with the incorrect nursing care of the staff. Lastly there is the unclassified category with unclassified themes. In regard to the abovementioned categories, the researcher has made a variety of recommendations. Firstly the focus falls on teaching strategies in the undergraduate nursing curriculum that need to transform. Secondly, the clinical practice would require certain changes. In the third place, the focus would be on the branding of psychiatric nursing as an acceptable future career for young people. Finally, there is a need for further research concerning the nursing students in other provinces, and whether they share the same opinions regarding a career in psychiatry. Lastly, research would also be required to identify those factors that positively influence the attitudes of those students that decide on a career in psychiatric nursing.

[发布机构] University of the Free State