老年看護学実習の初期における学生の困難 : 疾病や障害を持つ高齢者の自立に向けた観察の視点

student nurse

看護総合科学研究会誌

This study aimed to clarify the difficulties that the student nurses experienced in the first stage of clinical practice of gerontological nursing. The participants were 48 student nurses who were in charge of observing elderly people with disabilities. At the end of the clinical practice of gerontological nursing, the student nurses were interviewed on the difficulties they experienced during the period of their clinical practice. As a research method, the content talked about the difficulty when the student nurses observed the elderly people with disabilities in the interview was analyzed. Results indicated two difficulties that were experienced by student nurses observing elderly people with disabilities, "to find their potential ability" and "to set the target according to their self-reliance". Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the observation method and the improve the target setting in the first stage of clinical practice of gerontological nursing.