Expectations about hospital internship for nursing students

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Josemir Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Carrilho, Allana Bandeira, Santos, Linda Djeyme, Silva de Lima, Uirassú Tupinambá
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Atenção à Saúde
• Texto Completo: http://seer.uscs.edu.br/index.php/revista_ciencias_saude/article/view/3372
• topic: expectations; clinical internship; nursing; expectativas; estágio clínico; enfermagem.

The first internship of nursing students in the hospital environment is a time of many questions, doubts, and expectations, even though they have enough theoretical and practical knowledge to work with patients. To know the expectations of these students can help them experience this step more smoothly. Therefore, the aim of this study was to know the expectations of students of a nursing program discipline regarding their first hospital internship. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory study with quantitative design. The data collection instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire with closed questions. The study included 44 students. The analysis of the results showed that most students were in the 20-29 age group (65.90%); females (88.64%); with no experience in nursing (75%); with expectations to build confidence (65.91%); anxious (61.36%); insecure (45.45%). The percentage of nursing students anxious and insecure regarding their first internship is high, which may have negative effects on their performance, there being the need of interventions by the teaching staff to minimize these problems.