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Student nurses’ perceptions and experiences in caring for people living with HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Caring for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) requires clinical experience and quality care delivery skills. This study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of nursing students in caring for PLWHAs. METHODS: This qualitative descriptive study interviewed 18 student nurses wh...

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Autores principales: Shi, Chunhong, Cleofas, Jerome V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04074-x
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description BACKGROUND: Caring for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) requires clinical experience and quality care delivery skills. This study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of nursing students in caring for PLWHAs. METHODS: This qualitative descriptive study interviewed 18 student nurses who had cared for PLWHAs from 14 tertiary hospitals across 7 provinces in China through semi-structured telephone interviews. RESULTS: Two themes emerged from the narratives: student nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward PLWHAs and student nurses’ practical experiences with PLWHAs. Five theme clusters were revealed, namely “negative attitudes held before the care-giving,” “a series of psychological struggles in care-giving,” “favorable attitudes increased after the care-giving,” “consensus on care delivery for PLWHAs,” and “considerations regarding contamination reduction.” CONCLUSIONS: Findings shed light on the development and changes in student nurses' perspectives on PLWHAs throughout their clinical experiences. Student nurses' perceptions and attitudes toward PLWHAs progressed through three distinct stages, and positive changes were observed after care-giving. Participants' perceptions and practical experiences with patients with AIDS enable patients to receive fair and high-quality care and provide valuable insights for nursing educators better prepare HIV nurses. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04074-x.
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spelling pubmed-99068682023-02-08 Student nurses’ perceptions and experiences in caring for people living with HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study Shi, Chunhong Cleofas, Jerome V. BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: Caring for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) requires clinical experience and quality care delivery skills. This study aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of nursing students in caring for PLWHAs. METHODS: This qualitative descriptive study interviewed 18 student nurses who had cared for PLWHAs from 14 tertiary hospitals across 7 provinces in China through semi-structured telephone interviews. RESULTS: Two themes emerged from the narratives: student nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward PLWHAs and student nurses’ practical experiences with PLWHAs. Five theme clusters were revealed, namely “negative attitudes held before the care-giving,” “a series of psychological struggles in care-giving,” “favorable attitudes increased after the care-giving,” “consensus on care delivery for PLWHAs,” and “considerations regarding contamination reduction.” CONCLUSIONS: Findings shed light on the development and changes in student nurses' perspectives on PLWHAs throughout their clinical experiences. Student nurses' perceptions and attitudes toward PLWHAs progressed through three distinct stages, and positive changes were observed after care-giving. Participants' perceptions and practical experiences with patients with AIDS enable patients to receive fair and high-quality care and provide valuable insights for nursing educators better prepare HIV nurses. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-023-04074-x. BioMed Central 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9906868/ /pubmed/36750808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-023-04074-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750808
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