The experience of nursing students to the pain they inflict in clinical practice

Abstract

Objective: To describe the meaningfulness of the experience of inflicting pain of the nurses enrolled in the nursing program at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Tolima. Materials and methods: The research was conducted using a phenomenological approach, during the academic semester A 2012 (from January to June). After learning the nature and purpose of the study, a sample of 14 students, whose ages ranged between 17 and 23 years, participated voluntarily. They were applied a depth interview individually. Results: The experience expressed by students identified two categories; experiences and strategies for coping with the situation. Conclusion: The experience of causing pain lived by the novice nurse differs from that of the expert nurse according to a study by Madjar. The research demonstrated the need to include in the curriculum of the Nursing Program, activities that promote the development of coping strategies, from the application of methodological strategies that enable teachers to identify students’ human responses to stressful situations. As well as the student interprets codes of nonverbal communication expressed by her patient : the latter also discovers in his caretaker a cluster of emotions, feelings , fears, and even manages to interpret, in some cases, the level of knowledge that emerges during their encounter.