title: Nursing students' experience bathing patients for the first time.
abstract: This study describes nursing students' experience bathing an adult patient for the first time. The students feared giving their first patient a bath and voiced concern about harming him or her. They discovered that it was easier when they were paired with another student and acknowledged being supported by fellow nursing students. Beginners were uncomfortable about exposing and touching the patient's private body parts and were surprised when patients helped them through the bath.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Z R
authors.initials: ZR
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001494:Baths / Q000451:nursing*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000193:education; D010379:Peer Group; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*