4학년 간호학생의 119구급대원 인턴십 경험

Abstract

Having a job is primarily in order to realize the self and their livelihoods. Internship provides learning opportunities for college students who are planning to build their future careers. College period is the exploratory stage in the life long career. development stand point. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how interns learn from their internship participation, and how their experience lead them to plan their careers. Purpose: Comprehending the meaning of fourth year nursing students’ 119 paramedic internship experiences, and to understand it in depth. Method: The participants of this study were 8 Nursing Students who Internship at the 119 Paramedic for two weeks. The semi-structured questionnaire used for data collection was reconstructed using the questions used in Colaizzi’s(1978) study. They were asked to record and describe diverse aspects of their 119 Paramedic Internship Experiences in the facilities. Collected data included the participants’ feelings and thoughts about their 119 Paramedic Internship Experiences. Data were collected from September, 2012 to December, 2012. With Colaizzi’s(1978) phenomenological method which is a qualitative research method, this study intends to explore the essence of the 119 paramedic internship experience. Result: By carefully reading the in-depth interview data several times, 238 significant sentences and phrases were selected according to Colaizzi’s analytic method. By analyzing the meaning of 119 paramedic internship experience, 51 subjects, 23 subject collections, 10categories were confirmed. The summary of the results discovered are as the following. For 10categories, `Searching for a new job in addition to clinical’, ‘Experiencing diverse emergency situations’, ‘Renewing in mental attitude as care givers’, ‘Laboriousness due to mental and physical tension’, ‘Learning various response measures in an emergency’, ‘Feeling inadequate in giving emergency treatment’, ‘Feeling sorry for situational limitations’, ‘Feeling affection as colleagues’, ‘Feeling ambivalence towards jobs’ and ‘Assuring the job is worth challenging’ were derived. Conclusion: Through internship, nursing students understand nurses works, have several different experiences exposed in the event of an emergency, and learn the ways how to deal with emergencies, which gives a new mind set as future care-givers. However, they feel inadequate themselves through the experience in the field and also feel sorry about situational limitations. In difficult situations which a variety of on-site emergency occurs in, they feel fellowship as a nurse and think it worth challenging work even though it is back-breaking job, and feel ambivalence towards paramedic jobs. Based on the in-depth understanding of 119 paramedic internship experience, this study provides preliminary data for vocational guidance and intends to help the future employment guidance. Furthermore, this study provides a basic information for the practical operation of the various agencies in difficult situations of clinical practice due to the lack of field practice agencies. Based on the in-depth understanding of 119 paramedic internship experience, this study was to introduce occupational diversity as a nurse and to provide preliminary data for vocational guidance.