Yea-Pyng Lin
Mennonite Christian Hospital, Taiwan
Title: The explore of nursing experiences and perception in clinical caring
Biography
Biography: Yea-Pyng Lin
Abstract
Objective: Nurses constantly face the need to provide patient care, emphasis on physical, psychological, and spiritual within the health care system. To concern the nursing experience and perception in clinical caring is important. The purpose of the paper was to explore nursing experiences and perception in clinical caring from the nurse’s point of view.
Methods: A qualitative research method was applied to this paper with major assumptions from the symbolic interaction perspective. Forty subjects were recruited from regional hospital in Hualien city using purposive sampling, and were interviewed using structured method. Miles and Huberman qualitative method was used to analyze the data. Data was in the form of transcripts from tapes, analytic and process memos.
Results: Five element that were generated from the results of the study can be used to describe nurse’s concerns as follows: Function of nursing roles (to provide professional and holistic cares, satisfy requirements of commitment and conscience, to provide promptness and effectiveness of nursing service, and give a guiding principle for patient self-care), positive experiences in nursing processes (affirmation and feedback from patient, their families, and team member in the health care system; professional ability), frustrated experiences in nursing processes (insufficient support system from team member, especially from organization of nursing department, negative attitude from patients and their families), coping behaviors (include problem and emotion orientation) and expectation of administrators (to improve the professional competency, the shortage of nurses in clinical caring and upgrade the position of nurses).
Conclusions: The study successfully explores nursing experiences and perception in clinical caring. The results of this paper can be used to help nursing administrators to catch the demand of nurses and to adequately resolve the associated problems.