Abstract

Nursing students often harbor negative stereotypes and feel unknowledgeable and unprepared to work with mentally ill people. In addition, nursing students rarely choose the psychiatric specialty as a career option. A quantitative quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine nursing student feelings about engaging those with behavioral health problems. Over 300 nursing students in eight Bachelor of Science in Nursing professional nursing programs were surveyed on the first and last day of their program's psychiatric mental health nursing course (the independent variable). A valid and reliable survey instrument was used to collect nursing student responses characterizing attitudes, impressions of knowledge and preparedness, and career interests relative to psychiatric nursing. This work was supported by the theoretical tenants of Labeling Theory, Benner's Model, and Peplau's Theory on Interpersonal Relations. Statistical Package for Social Sciences software was used for exploration of the data. Data examination included descriptive analysis and paired t tests of four component subscales identified by the survey tool authors which were associated with the research questions and research hypotheses in this study.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3736711; ProQuest document ID: 1746983621. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Todd B. Hastings, PhD

Sigma Membership

Non-member

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Psychiatric Nursing, Nursing Students, Clinical Experience, Negative Stereotypes

Advisor

Margaret Kroposki

Second Advisor

Gail Williams

Third Advisor

Vinata Kulkarni

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Phoenix

Degree Year

2015

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2024-03-20

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