Metaphors of postgraduate students for psychiatric nursing “Seeing yourself in the mirror”: A qualitative study
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2024
Yazarlar: Ege Miray TOPCU, Mahire Olcay ÇAM
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, Diğer Kurumların Hakemli Dergileri, Uluslararası, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), 2024, ss 276-285
Özet
Metaphors of postgraduate students for psychiatric nursing "Seeing yourself in the mirror": A qualitative study P sychiatric nurses are the health-care professionals who protect, heal, and improve mental health by making assessments at the level of individual, family, and society. [1,2]Psychiatric nurses create and promote their professional identity from undergraduate education.[3][4][5] Professional identity is a set of values and benefits that shape nurse's relationship with the patient and care.[6] These values and beliefs are expected to be improved by integrating with the philosophy of nursing.[3] The formation of professional identity introduces positive effects in terms of the nurse as well as care service.[3,4] At the same time, building clinical competence has a critical importance for the basis of professional autonomy and decisionmaking.[7] Integration of individuals with their profession and their ability to bring their profession to an important position in their lives are the consequences of the establishment of a professional identity.[3] Postgraduate education is an important step for nurses to create and develop a professional identity by enhancing the understanding of the same knowledge, experience, and professional philosophy.[4] Psychiatric nurses, whose development has been Objectives: Psychiatric nursing is realized with the completion of postgraduate education in Türkiye.Individuals determine the field that they want to create and promote a professional identity in line with their personal and occupational goals.There is no study examining the perceptions of the nurses about the field they have chosen in Türkiye.This study was carried out to examine the metaphors of nurses continuing postgraduate education in the field of psychiatric nursing at a University for Psychiatric Nursing.Methods: This study was conducted with phenomenology approach among qualitative research designs.Forty-seven postgraduate nursing students participated in the study.The data were collected by an Information Form and the metaphor sentence as "psychiatric nursing is like … because…" that questions the perceptions of nurses about psychiatric nursing between July and October 2021.Results: In research, 37 different metaphors were identified among the answers examined.Terms such as mirror, observatory, tree root, stained glass, and dance were included among the metaphors.The metaphors were examined under six themes including titles such as "laboring, " "providing balance and integrity, " "understanding self and the other, " "accompanying, " "eternity/life, " and "rootedness." It was observed that holistic, balancing, caring and accompanying aspects of nursing were emphasized through metaphors used by postgraduate students of psychiatric nursing.The frequent use of terms such as dance, color and music including artistic and esthetic elements has reflected the artistic aspect of psychiatric nursing. Conclusion:The study provides data on specialization in psychiatric nursing nationally from a cultural and policy perspective.