Kyunghee Lee
Title: Effect of A Violence Prevention Program for Undergraduate Nursing Students during the Clinical Practicum
Submitted Date: 30-10-2018
Biography
Kyunghee Lee has completed her Doctor of Nursing Science at the age of 36 years from Seoul National University in South Korea and postdoctoral studies from University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing in USA. She is currently a professor of Mental Health Nursing at College of Nursing, Keimyung University in South Korea (1993-now). She was also a professor at Gongju National Nursing College (1983-1992). rnShe served as the President of Yeongnam Branch of Korean Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners’ Society (2004-2006). She also served as an Editor-in-Chief of Keimyung Journal of Nursing Science and a Director of Research Institute of Nursing Science, Keimyung University (2015-2017). rnHer nursing background includes mobile phone-based therapeutic lifestyle change, autonomic balance, obesity management and metabolic syndrome. She has received research grants from various institutions including Korea Research Foundation.rnHer representative paper is as follows: Heart Rate Variability and Metabolic Syndrome in hospitalized Patients with Schizophrenia (2011). She has published more than 100 papers.rn
Abstract
Diverse types of violence against nurses and other healthcare providers at hospital have been on the constant increase; in particular, nurses who frequently contact with patients are always exposed to the unavoidable risks of violence, which is a serious problem that puts them at a disadvantage rnNursing students were also found to experience many different types of violence at a hospital by patients, caregivers, nurses, doctors, and hospital employees. At least 75% of the nursing students experienced anxiety or fear due to the violence and had negative thinking due to the changes in their emotions and self-confidence in case of violence. It is necessary to give a proper level of knowledge and self-confidence in pursuit of threat control and intervention against violence in clinical practicum; when a violence intervention education program was run for nurses and nursing students, they not only became more confident but also saw an improvement in their knowledge, skills, and attitude toward the risk factors. rnWe aimed to develop and test the effects of a violence prevention program for nursing students in nursing clinical practicum. The study design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design and content analysis of the participation experience. The program was done in eight sessions—two sessions a week. The quantitative of the results showed knowledge about violence, communicative competence, communicative self-efficacy, and coping style were significantly better in the experimental group compared to the control group. According to the qualitative results, the nursing students experienced improvement in coping style against a violence during nursing clinical practicum. In conclusion, the application of a violence prevention program for nursing students are expected to help control violence in clinical practice and improve their ability to adapt themselves to clinical nursing practicum. rn