Riesgo de estrés en estudiantes de enfermería durante las prácticas clínicas

The student has to face new situations for which they are not ready enough. This lack of training also marks the stress level in different situations, that is, this leads students to live with high stress levels. OBJETIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate about the facts that result in stress on clinical practices for nursing students. METHOD: This is a study made by the Nursing School of the University of Murcia during the month of March in the academia year 2010/2011. The sample has been made to 30 students that belong to the first, second and third level of the degree, to whom a survey validated by a previous test was given. RESULT: Alter doing the job, we see that the thing that more upset first level students is ignorance in a clinical situation, for second level students is the impotente and uncertainty on particular situations and the risk of suffering from infection, damages or injuries in patience relationship. And finally, to third level students the more stressful thing is their practice evaluation. CONCLUSIONS: The solutions that we propose to all those stress factors is a constant effort done by the students reinforcing all the acquire knowledge in the classroom, reducing the working groups, to get a job methodology and finally to know the way the place where the practices take place works.