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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
World Nursing 2017
July 10-12, 2017
23
rd
World Nursing and Healthcare Conference
July 10-12, 2017 Berlin, Germany
Resilience enhancement among student nurses in clinical practices
Hwey-Fang Liang
1
, Chang-Chiao Hung
2
and
Kuang-Ming Wu
3
1
PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi Campus, Taiwan
2
PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Chia-Yi Campus, Taiwan
3
EdD, Assistant Professor, College of Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Background:
Nursing students often encounter enormous stress during clinical practices. The stress that exists among student nurses
in clinical practices has been greatly noticed recently because it significantly affects the career of nursing staff. Resilience is of the
essential components that equip student nurses to confront challenges in the future.
Purpose:
The aim of this study was to explore and reflect upon a theory-based interventions designed to promote student nurses’
resilience abilities in Taiwan.
Design andMethods:
A participatory action research (PAR) and in-depth interviews were adopted for this study. There were eighteen
student nurses participated, and three workshops of the resilience enhancement project were acted.
Findings:
A series of PAR based workshops were processed, and designed to engage students as resources to strengthen resilience
during clinical practice. Participants received positive outcomes including: (a) empowering professional nursing knowledge and
skills, (b) facilitating sensitivity of self-reflections, (c) providing competent supports, and (d) constructing emotional resilience.
Conclusions:
The results present that PAR could effectively empower student nurses to promote abilities including professional
knowledge and skills and psychological supports. Participants’ insights added to a deeper understanding of personal resilience and
highlight future initiatives to enhance student nurses’ abilities to promote care qualities and coping challenges. It also helped to
encourage them to engage themselves in self-reflections during clinical practices.
Clinical Relevance:
The findings can be a reference for nursing education to design resilience enhancement program for student
nurses in clinical practices to increase their nursing profession and psychological supports.
Biography
Hwey-Fang Liang came from Taiwan. She completed her Ph.D. in the School of Nursing of Duquesne University, PA, USA. She is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Nursing in Chang Gung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. She has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals with English
and Chinese and still concentrate herself in nursing research.
Hwey-Fang Liang et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-049