Nursing Students’ First Clinical Experience with a Dying Patient or the Dead: A Phenomenological ..

The study's aim was to look at nursing students' first clinical encounter with a dying or deceased patient. The research used a qualitative case study design with six students, all of whom were homogeneous in nature and were purposefully chosen from the nursing department of a private university in Accra.Indepth interviews were used to elicit the participants' lived experiences, and the field data were analysed using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis technique.The study yielded seven themes: motivations for choosing nursing as a career, emotional and psychological consequences, coping mechanisms, student planning before clinical placement, access to counselling, and future thoughts about nursing. To explain the students' interactions, positive and unproductive forces are used. The findings revealed that nursing students were unprepared for their first clinical encounter and suffered from a variety of negative emotional and psychological symptoms such as anxiety and stress. Some students were unable to cope with their experiences and desired to withdraw from the programme, while others were able to embrace the situation. Because of their personality, they find themselves in a difficult situation. Conclusion: The authors suggest that students receive sufficient orientation or training prior to clinical placement, and that counselling resources be made available to them before, during, and after their clinical placement, both at the hospital and at the school, where possible.

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