An Analysis of What Students in Psychiatric Nursing Practice and Effectiveness of Nursing Process

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the structure of students' learning in the psychiatric nursing practice, and to obtain the material of an effective education method. First, the analyses are carried out by the remarks from 9 nursing students who finished nursing practice. Next, based on these categories, a questionnaire was prepared and was disseminated to 26 nursing students who did not use the nursing process and 25 nursing students who used the nursing process. As a result, analysis identified the following 6 core categories. "understanding patients", "How to relate to patients", "The nursing skills necessary for caring for mental disease patients", "Method of using communication skills", "Life environment for mental disease patients" and "Self-understanding".
In addition, most of the categoies arose as an effect of the nursing process in psychiatric nursing practice. Especially, the score of "Understanding of recreational therapy", "Understanding of nursing method", "Self-understanding" and "Psychological distance from patients" were significantly higher in those using the nursing processes than in those not the using it.