Abstract
The purpose of the present study is to elucidate the process during which students face difficulty and the method by which they cope with certain situations during clinical training so that the teaching staff may gain insight into future training in clinical pediatric nursing. Interviews were conducted by posing semi-structured questions to 21 nursing students on the bewilderment or difficulty that they experienced during the training. Consequently, the following emerged from the process in which the students became distressed during the training (from (1) to (4)) and their methods for coping with the problems (from A to C). The reasons given for "deterrence mainly concerning clinical activities" were: (1) Discomfort with strange children or uneasy feeling with new sick children; (2) Threat felt at facing sick children; (3) Discouragement at not completing nursing technology; and (4) Complex integration process and application of nursing methodology. The structure for coping mechanism was described as: A. Persistent and continued efforts; B. Application of the leader's advice and copying the nursing pattern that has been indicated; and C. Mutual encouragement among students. These findings indicated that procedures, such as understanding the difficulty that students experience in training in clinical pediatric nursing, explaining the importance of continuous efforts in training, offering psychological support, joining the students in continuing the study by showing models, and conducting conferences where experiences are acted out by the students themselves and presented in an affirmative manner, will be one approach to success in such a training program.
