Moral conflicts and new situations such as mental disordered patients. Their academic stress is not that bad according to my experience.

Dear Beatrice,

Thank you for your interesting insight.  Do you have any evaluation for these results?  I appreciate such information.

As I am working on my study proposal on perceived stress and student nurse mitigation, I have been finding the literature speaks to stress in both situations and much more. Interestingly, the literature has different responses to different class groupings - sophomore, juniors and seniors. What have you found?

Dear Susan

Thanks for your contribution.  I agree with you. Both areas have their own stress.  Another thing,  from my findings (up till now) it is also evident that stress varies according to the year of the course.  Recently the course was changed from a 4 year course to a 3 year and it may have also added some stress to the students.  However, it is amazing how students though stressed manage to continue the course using different types of coping mechanisms.  It seems that the family support is an essential factor as a coping mechanism.

Have you seen this study?

Reeve, K. L., Shumaker, C. J., Yearwood, E. L., Crowell, N. A., & Riley, J. B. (2013). Perceived stress and social support in undergraduate nursing students’ educational experiences. Nurse Education Today, 33, 419-424. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.11.009

I found it very interesting and have permission to use their tool from Kristen.  I have many more articles if you are interested I can be reached at [email protected]

Thank you Susan.  That is of great help and I will surely look through that article.  I will surely contact you.

I would like to find out the stressors that nursing students encounter in both the clinical area and at the faculty or institution where they attend. Thank you