This study aimed to clarify the present nursing practice of new graduate nurses in a medical team, involving clinical problems such as“Difficult nursing practice”,“Nursing practice not grounded on principles and rules”, and “Inability to communicate with other members”. It was an attempt to gather data that were needed to build an effective relationship between basic education and continuing education in nursing.
The participants were six new graduate nurses who graduated from the baccalaureate program in nursing. Data were collected using participant observation and semi-structured interviews and were analyzed by content analysis.
The following characteristics were identified in the nursing practice of new graduate nurses, which made them unable to practice effective nursing skills and created difficulty in treating many patients:“Inability to think about others”,“Lack of applying knowledge in clinical settings”,“Preceded habits”, and“Refrained attitude from senior nurses”.
This study suggests the importance of building an educational substance and method in clinical setting of both basic education and continuing education in nursing. It’s also important for the teachers of these two educational fields to cooperate closely with each other, especially on nursing skill education. Furthermore it’s necessary for the new graduate nurses to be independent about continued studying.
In order to clarify how rescuers deal with injured people at the site of a disaster in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe, we extracted descriptions about the rescuers’ behavior perceived from the viewpoint of injured people from the report written by nursing students who participated in an aircraft accident drill as injured people, and then analyzed them inductively. The feelings that emerged from the viewpoint of the injured people can be classified into “positive feelings”, such as relief, calmness, and hope, and “negative feelings”, including anger, disgust, anxiety, and fear. The behavior that induced the “positive feelings” was that which “respects the injured people”, “makes the victims feel they are not alone”, and “provides the prospect of survival”, and it was based on an empathetic attitude. The behavior that caused the “negative feelings” includes that which “prioritizes the rescuers themselves”, “ignores or disregards the injured people”, “makes the victims feel they will not be rescued soon”, and “technical deficiency of the rescuers”. In order to reassure, calm down, and triage the victims accurately, rescuers need to adopt behavior that induces “positive feelings”.