Psychiatric Patients In Mental Health Settings

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The purpose of this pilot study is to describe the undergraduate nursing students' experiences communicating with the psychiatric patients in mental health settings. This part presents the methods and the procedures that will be used in this pilot study. The design of this pilot study will be the qualitative approach utilizing a descriptive phenomenological research design to answer the research question of this pilot study and to describe the undergraduate nursing students' experiences communicating with the psychiatric patients in mental health settings. The benefit of this approach is that facilitates the research process to explore the UNS experiences, to compare the meanings of the experiences, and to build themes elucidate the unique experiences of UNS. Furthermore, this is the most proper methodology as it is more concerned with personal experiences and meanings, happens in a natural setting and being descriptive, which will offer more in-depth outcomes. As result, the qualitative research method and philosophy of phenomenology will be employed to study this experience (Beck, 2013; Husserl, 1970; Munhall & Chenail, 2008). The descriptive phenomenological method helps to provide an understanding …show more content…

Exclusion criteria will be any student has been working with psychiatric patients, has a family member with a mental disorder; and exclude any student had registered previously any mental health