Type of Submission
Poster
Keywords
Nursing, Cedarville University, stress, self-care
Abstract
Problem: Cedarville university nursing students are likely to experience stressful work environments and traumatic events. Wentzel (2017) reports that nurses often encounter critical incidents. Exposure to critical incidents can affect the mental health of nurses and lead to secondary or vicarious trauma (Mayer, 2018). Students entering the nursing profession need to develop self-care practices to enhance productivity and maintain their emotional health as they provide care to patients (Boyle, 2011). The current study seeks to help Cedarville nursing students develop better self-care practices. Research Question: Does a self-care training program decrease the level of stress in Cedarville nursing students? Method:This hybrid quantitative and qualitative study will use an evaluative approach and a quasi-experimental design to determine if a particular self-care training program is effective in decreasing stress levels in nursing students attending Cedarville University. Population and Sample: This study consists of first semester junior nursing majors at Cedarville University with voluntary participation. A post test will survey a random sample of junior nursing students who did not participate in the intervention as well as all of the students who did participate. Collection and Analysis: In order to measure perceptions of self-care among Cedarville nursing students, we will administer an adaptation of the self-care assessment by Norton (see Appendix A) to all students who participated in the training and a random sample of all other Cedarville nursing students. Data will be analyzed using SPSS and paired-sample t-test to assess the differences in stress levels between our control and experiment groups. We will then select a purposive sample of students from the experiment group to interview about their experience with the class and stress levels. To measure this qualitative data, we will read through the interviews to look for themes and key phrases in order to code interviews either as generally positive, generally negative, or neutral. Expected Findings: We expect that a self-care training program for Cedarville nursing students will lower stress levels among the students.
Campus Venue
Stevens Student Center Lobby
Location
Cedarville, OH
Start Date
4-3-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
4-3-2019 2:00 PM
Creative Commons License
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The Efficacy of a Self-Care Training Program for Cedarville University Nursing Students
Cedarville, OH
Problem: Cedarville university nursing students are likely to experience stressful work environments and traumatic events. Wentzel (2017) reports that nurses often encounter critical incidents. Exposure to critical incidents can affect the mental health of nurses and lead to secondary or vicarious trauma (Mayer, 2018). Students entering the nursing profession need to develop self-care practices to enhance productivity and maintain their emotional health as they provide care to patients (Boyle, 2011). The current study seeks to help Cedarville nursing students develop better self-care practices. Research Question: Does a self-care training program decrease the level of stress in Cedarville nursing students? Method:This hybrid quantitative and qualitative study will use an evaluative approach and a quasi-experimental design to determine if a particular self-care training program is effective in decreasing stress levels in nursing students attending Cedarville University. Population and Sample: This study consists of first semester junior nursing majors at Cedarville University with voluntary participation. A post test will survey a random sample of junior nursing students who did not participate in the intervention as well as all of the students who did participate. Collection and Analysis: In order to measure perceptions of self-care among Cedarville nursing students, we will administer an adaptation of the self-care assessment by Norton (see Appendix A) to all students who participated in the training and a random sample of all other Cedarville nursing students. Data will be analyzed using SPSS and paired-sample t-test to assess the differences in stress levels between our control and experiment groups. We will then select a purposive sample of students from the experiment group to interview about their experience with the class and stress levels. To measure this qualitative data, we will read through the interviews to look for themes and key phrases in order to code interviews either as generally positive, generally negative, or neutral. Expected Findings: We expect that a self-care training program for Cedarville nursing students will lower stress levels among the students.
