Learning Motivation and Self-Rated Anxiety: Nurse Interns' perspectives | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 33, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2019, Page 419-429 PDF (613.35 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.215912 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Hamida Ahmed Mustafa Darweesh1; Neama F. Kamel2; Ayah Shaban Abd-ElFattah Abd-ElRasoul1 | ||||
| 1lecturer of Nursing Education, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||||
| 2Assistant professor of Psychiatric and Mental health Nursing, Alexandria University. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Internship nursing students may go through many stressful experiences due to the acceleration of field experience and assignment to many roles and workload; however, they have limited clinical preparation. Therefore, this period is considered a stressful, tense, and demanding time of nursing practice. Aim: The study aimed to assess learning motivation and self-rated anxiety among nursing interns. Design: a descriptive correlational research design was used to conduct this study. Setting: This study was conducted at four governmental hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt, namely; El Shatby, Somoha, El Merey, and Nariman hospitals. Sample: a convenience sample of all nursing interns who enrolled in the internship year 2017-2018, 272 comprised the study subjects. Tool: An electronic triple-section questionnaire was used for collecting the necessary data in the current study, the First section; interns’ personal data, the Second section; the Self-Rated Anxiety Scale (SRAS), and the third section; Nursing interns’ Learning Motivation Scale (NILMS). Results: The results of this study showed that nursing interns perceived mostly low anxiety levels and high motivation levels. Hence, an inverse correlation between both can be seen. Conclusion: Anxiety is highly widespread among nursing students, dominantly in clinical settings due to many factors including; stressful environment and lack of experience. It is a normal response to unfamiliar and unknown experiences. In some cases, anxiety can be a power to enhance a nursing student’s coping and learning motivation. However, it can also be a mute threat that may distress nurses' achievements and decrease their motivation levels without noticing it. Recommendation: In general, accordingly it is recommended that the psychological state and anxiety levels among nursing students be assessed as a priority issue in the healthcare system. It is also recommended to work on increasing the level of motivation to learn among internship students, as it contributes significantly to reducing their level of anxiety, especially in the first months of clinical practice. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Self-rated Anxiety; Learning Motivation; Nursing Interns | ||||
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