Difficulties Encountered by Nursing Students in Caring of Refugee Women: A Qualitative Study

Abstract

Purpose: This study was done as for the purpose of manifesting the problems experienced by nursing students. Material and Methods: This study was planned as a phenomenological type of qualitative research. Thirty-five students volunteered to participate in this research. The students were divided into five groups, seven students per group, and focus group interviews were conducted for each group. Results: The average age of the students was 21.08 ± 0.61 years, 68.6% of the students were women, and 31.4% were men. Five themes were formed regarding the difficulties experienced by the students in the content analysis: inability to give active care because of the language barrier, displaying a sympathetic approach because of feeling mercy and thinking that she/he cannot give adequate care, fear of contagious diseases, and the inability to apply enough practice/learn in the clinical environment as a male nurse because of the perception of privacy. Conclusion: It was determined that student nurses experienced problems during the maintenance of refugee women in particular the problem of language-related communication, women's expectations of respect for privacy, concerns about the risk of communicable disease. It may be recommended to add intercultural nursing to the academic program, increase course content on patient-nurse communication, and increase students' knowledge of asepsis/antisepsis due to infection concerns.

Keywords

• Difficulty
• nursing student
• refugee women
• qualitative study

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