Abstract

High stress levels are experienced by student nurses throughout their professional education, with the chaotic ever-changing clinical environment being a predominant source of stress. Clinical nursing faculty have a critical role to recognize the stress their students experience in the clinical environment and understand its significance.

A qualitative descriptive design was used to provide a rich description of clinical nursing faculty perceptions of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing student clinical stress. A purposive sample of 14 clinical nursing faculty with at least 4 semesters of clinical nursing faculty experience from accredited, generic baccalaureate nursing programs in the Northeast region of the United States participated in open-ended interviews using a semi-structured format. Sample size adequacy was justified when saturation of data was achieved. Interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed, and qualitative content and thematic analysis were used to sort the descriptive data to generate themes.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 10821740; ProQuest document ID: 2051294015. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Catherine A. Stubin, PhD, RN, CNE, CCRN

Sigma Membership

Eta Beta

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Clinical Nursing Factuly, Clinical Environment, Nursing Students, Stress Levels, Nursing Education

Advisor

Barbara Patterson

Second Advisor

Mary Baumberger-Henry

Third Advisor

M. Elaine Tagliareni

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Widener University

Degree Year

2018

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2022-04-19

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