The Practice of Body Position Changes among Beginner Nurses Who Have Just Started to Work

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  • 就職直後の新人看護師における体位変換の実践の様相
  • シュウショク チョクゴ ノ シンジン カンゴシ ニ オケル タイイ ヘンカン ノ ジッセン ノ ヨウソウ

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The purpose of this research is to clarify how nurses new to working life practice the art of nursing. In particular, I will focus on the experiences of carrying out patient body position change, which is highly situation-dependent and is characterized by the bodily contact the nurses have with their patients. This is qualitative descriptive research conducted through participation observation and half-structured interviews. By focusing on April, the month when they start employment, I described specifically how the beginner nurses feel, think, and practice changing the body position of their patients. The research participants were five nurses new to the job who had started their working lives in 2009 or 2010. Right after they started to work, the beginner nurses came to appreciate their patients’ conditions through physical contact. They were surprised by the difference between their pre-contact impressions and that of reality. While they felt fear and anxiety as they did not know how to provide the patients with proper assistance, they started to think about how they could learn to do so. The bodily senses that the beginner nurses became attuned to functioned as a tool they could use to grasp the physical conditions of the patients. At the same time, the anxiety that arose from these bodily senses led to the search for appropriate assistance. Therefore it can be said that the bodily senses form the basis of nursing art acquisition.

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