Abstract
The healthcare environment mandates its staff are able to communicate freely and openly to provide high quality patient care leading to positive patient outcomes. As the largest healthcare profession and those who are at the bedside most often with patients, registered nurses play a vital role in ensuring these outcomes. As advocates for the most vulnerable, nurses must communicate often but before doing so, they must feel psychologically safe. Psychological safety is how one perceives the benefits, risks, and consequences of asking a question, sharing an opinion, reporting an error, or revealing one's true self to others. It is a belief that one would not be shamed, punished, or humiliated for speaking up with questions, concerns, or mistakes. Although vital in the profession, psychological safety has been found to be essential to the learning process in nursing education. As the demographic of the United States changes and becomes more diverse, the healthcare workforce has been challenged with mirroring that population including nursing education. The minority experience in nursing school has been studied; what is not known is this population's experiences of psychological safety. The purpose of this unique study was to know the experiences of psychological safety of nursing students who identify as Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Eleven BIPOC, pre-licensure, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students from across the United States participated in this qualitative, descriptive study.
Sigma Membership
Chi Mu
Lead Author Affiliation
California Baptist University, Riverside, California, USA
Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Descriptive/Correlational
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Diversity Equity, Pschological Safety, BIPOC Nursing Students, Inclusion
Advisor
Michael Aldridge
Second Advisor
Natalie Pool
Third Advisor
Jeannette McNeill
Fourth Advisor
Heather Pendleton-Helm
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Northern Colorado
Degree Year
2022
Recommended Citation
Anozie, Melissa M., "It's more than nursing: The experience of psychological safety of pre-licensure nursing students who identify as Black, indigenous, and people of color" (2023). Dissertations. 650.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/650
Rights Holder
All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.
All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.
All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.
Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2023-03-21
Full Text of Presentation
wf_yes
Description
This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 29995101; ProQuest document ID: 2771052737. The author still retains copyright.