Nursing Intervention Program for Enhancing Coping Patterns among Nursing Students

Abstract

Background: Nursing students face many sources of stress during undergraduate nursing education and training as, fear of the unknown, lack of professional nursing skills Aim: to enhance coping patterns among nursing students. Design: a quasi-experimental design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was carried out ata faculty of nursing Ain-shams University.Subjects: A convenient sample was selected for this study was performed on 80 nursing student.Tools:1) Self-administered questionnaire sheet. 2) student clinical stressors Scale. 3)Coping patterns Scale. Results: The present study revealed that there were highly statistically significant differences were found between pre-post program implementation after five months regarding student clinical stressors and coping strategies among nursing students. Also, there were statistically significant correlations between total clinical stressors and coping patterns at a pre-post-program after five months. Conclusion: nursing students had high levels of clinical stressors, which decreased after the implementation of the management program with a highly statistically significant difference (P≤ 0.001). Recommendations: Designing systematically continuous Special remedial programs need to be constructed for students with high clinical and academic stressors and low coping patterns to provide proper information and psychological support that help them improve their academic performance which in turn increase their coping patternsand reduce the sense of stress.