The Behavior of Staff Nurses, Nursing Education, and Global Health

• Discuss how staff nurse behaviors affect global health • Verbalize the impact that staff nurse behaviors have on the education of student nurses Objectives • Some student nurses experience high levels of stress in the clinical setting (Shipton, 2002) • Anxiety may be an obstacle to learning in the clinical setting (Becker & Neuwirth, 2002) Background of the Problem • To better understand student nurses' perception of anxiety in the clinical setting and to understand what anxiety means for student nurses in the clinical setting. Purpose • In the clinical setting, how do student nurses: Make meaning of, interpret, and perceive their anxiety? Contextualize, and/or understand their anxiety? Research Question • Help nurse educators to: Develop interventions to minimize student anxiety in the clinical setting Provide a learning environment that manifests a lower level of anxiety to facilitate learning Significance of the Study • Situated Cognition Learning Theory Main premise- Learning is connected to the situation where learning occurs (Merriam & Caffarella, 1999) Learners are exposed to social groups and underg