Understanding nursing students' stress: a proposed framework.
A paucity of comprehensive research, as well as inconsistent application of theories/conceptual frameworks, have resulted in a limited knowledge of stress in nursing students. The purpose of this paper is to establish a framework for understanding the stress/coping/adaptation process in the nursing student population. To this end, Pollock's Adaptation Nursing Model (Pollock 1984) is discussed and subsequently recommended as a possible alternative. Utilization of this framework as an organizing construct for the paper facilitates a comprehensive review of recent literature related to stress in undergraduate nursing students. In addition, it is proposed that Pollock's model can provide nurse educators, practitioners, administrators and researchers with a framework for understanding nursing students' stress.
Sawatzky
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JA
Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*