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- Title
Adjusting Process of Nurses to an Oriental Medical Unit.
- Authors
이미헌; 박형숙; 하재현
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the adjustment experiences of nurses to an oriental medical unit. Methods: Fourteen nurses who worked or were working in oriental medical units participated. Data were collected through in-depth interviews from April to December, 2013. Analyses of the transcribed interviews were done using Corbin and Strauss’s grounded theory. Results: Through the constant comparative analysis method, the central phenomenon was identified as ‘constant mental fluctuation’. Nurses reported their adjustment to an oriental medical unit through four stages. The stages were described as ‘the discouraged’ stage, ‘the conflicted’ stage, ‘the restructuring’ stage and lastly ‘the coexistence’ stage. Conclusion: As the participants reported the process of adjusting, they reported continuous constant conflicts and struggles with the oriental medical doctors, the nursing department, patients and their guardians and lastly with themselves. The process of becoming integrated into an oriental medical unit is a complex study and should be studied further in terms of whether this process is the same or different adjusting to other units.
- Subjects
ADAPTABILITY (Personality); GROUNDED theory; HOSPITAL wards; INTERVIEWING; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; DATA analysis
- Publication
Korean Journal of Adult Nursing, 2017, Vol 29, Issue 6, p615
- ISSN
1225-4886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7475/kjan.2017.29.6.615