Insights from Clinics: Stress among Nursing Students

Abstract

<jats:p>This study was carried out to report on the factors promoting nursing students’ stress and their strategies to cope up with the stress situation. Questionnaires were manually distributed to first-year, second-year, third-year, and intern students to check their stress level. The sample was composed of 75 nursing students. Items were rated on a five-point Likert Scale. Stress among nursing students and interns was measured using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and Coping Behavior Inventory (CBI). The researchers also gathered data through open-ended questions from 18 intern nursing students. These students were at the completion of their course. This study addresses key issues that will be of interest and benefit to nursing schools that want to tackle and remove the problems of stress among nursing students. It discusses the importance of providing a good environment to students promoting a favorable study experience. This experience may be enhanced by assigning different duties to different departments, which would help in the development of their multitasking skills. This would not be possible without enough support from colleagues and teachers.</jats:p>

Explaining the Clinical Education Stressors in Nursing Students: A Qualitative Study

“…The clinical environment has variable and unpredictable characteristics, making the students' education inevitably stressful (13). Stress is a natural reaction to the environment (14). The stressful experience of education and the intrinsic stress of the clinical environment, which results from dealing with human lives, expose nursing students to stress, which can have direct and indirect effects on their health and performance (15).…”