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김문실 ( Kim Moon-Sil ) - 이화여자대학교 간호대학
이순희 ( Lee Soon-Hee ) - 청주과학대학 간호과
김숙영 ( Kim Sook-Young ) - 서울여자간호대학
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Abstract
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Despite the familiarity and universality of the concepts of nursing, It is little known about the meaning of nursing in freshmen of nursing school. The meaning of nursing is directly connected with nursing professionalism and motivation of entering nursing school. The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning of nursing for freshmen who just entered nursing school in university. Subjects were 147 freshmen at two nurses’ universities located in Seoul. The research questions such as "What is the meaning of nursing to you?" and "What is the symbolic image associated with
nursing?" were given to the subjects. Data were collected by asking the subjects to respond to the research questions. A Phenomenological approach was used, and data were analysed using the Van Kaam Method. For the 147 subjects in this study, 248 descriptive expressions surfaced, and 18 common elements emerged. The researchers extracted six meaningful themes of nursing from these 18 common elements and outlined them in abstract but suggestive terms.
And the six meaningful themes were as follows: 1. Provide care with love and sincerity. 2. Give patients hope and happiness. 3. Help patients with devotion and self-sacrificing spirit. 4. Understand and sympathize with patients. 5. As essential and indispensable element of life to relieve physical pain. 6. Insignificant but hard and distressing. Through synthesis of those six themes of nursing, such substantial and structural definitions were concluded as follows: The freshmen of nursing school in the university regarded nursing as providing care with love and sincerity, understanding and sympathizing with patients, helping them with devotion and self-sacrificing spirit, and giving them hope and happiness. Nursing activities, however, were viewed as insignificant, hard and distressing but essential and indispensable to sick individuals. The results of this research revealed some limits of the subjects’ views of nursing as they were closer to traditional perspectives on nursing centered on only emotional aspects like self-sacrificing spirit, love and devotion and
somehow narrow for focusing only on the physical pains of patients. Therefore, strategic efforts should be made in both educational and clinical scenes to enhance nursing student’s recognition of the professionalism of nursing.
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KeyWords
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간호관
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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