Nursing students often experience anger in response to stress and suppress their anger instead of actively controlling it. Therefore, the anger self-control programs that can manage nursing students’ anger level and dysfunctional anger expression are needed. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of an anger self-control program on trait anger, anger expression style, grateful disposition, and depression among nursing students. The study used a quasi-experimental study with a nonequivalent control group and a non-synchronized design. Participants were 29 nursing students who were assigned to intervention and control groups. Compared to the control group, the intervention group showed significantly decreased mean scores for the trait anger, anger-in, and anger-out anger expression styles, and increased mean scores for the anger-control anger expression style and grateful disposition. Anger self-control programs might be usefully applied as extracurricular anger-management programs for nursing students.

Choi EJ, et al. J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2018 Jun;27(2):146-158. https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2018.27.2.146

Purpose: This phenomenological study was done to identify clinical nurses' experiences of safety management with older patients. Methods: Data were analyzed using Colaizzi's phenomenological six step method. Data collected from July 27 to December 1, 2017, were from face-to-face in-depth interviews with seven nurses who had worked at one general hospital for more than five years. Data collection was done until data saturation was reached. Results: This study results were comprised of four categories and nine clusters of themes. The four categories were: "Increasing burden in the management of older patients", "Unsettling feelings of fear and guilt from unexpected safety accidents", "Shift to active coping", and "Expectations regarding improvement of safety management for older patients" Conclusion: The results of this study show that for clinical nurses to provide safety management for older patients, it is necessary to have a sufficient number of nursing staff, to understand the unique characteristics of elders, and to establish facilities that older patients can use safely and conveniently. In addition, this study is significant for the nursing community as it provides an improved understanding of safety management for older patients from the nurses' point of view and thereby, suggests that there is a need for education and improvement in the work capability to provide care to elders. Furthermore, the study results are also politically significant as evidence to establish standards for expanding the number of nursing staff and safety management infrastructure.

Jo EJ, et al. J Korean Acad Community Health Nurs. 2018 Dec;29(4):488-498. https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2018.29.4.488

Objective: To establish basic data for identifying the level of mental health care competency of general nurses through verification of the reliability and validity of Competency Assessment Tool-Mental Health in the development of a measurement tool for mental health care competency in Korea. Methods: This study was conducted on nurses working at general wards, excluding those working at the Department of Psychiatry, in five hospitals with 200 beds or more located in Korea. Content, construct, concurrent validity, and internal consistency of the measurement were confirmed. Results: As a result of the construct validity, the section on importance of skills and knowledge for mental health care had 21 items, whereas the section on benefits of additional education had 22 items. The internal consistency of measurement was confirmed as follows: Cronbach's α = 0.96 for the section on importance and 0.96 for the section on benefits section. Conclusions: This study verified the high validity and reliability of the tool in assessing the mental health care competency of nurses, and it is believed to be significant as basic data for enhancing such competency.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the suffering experienced by the primary caregiver of people with mental disabilities in community dwellings to explain the fundamental structure thereof. Methods: The Giorgi's phenomenological research methodology was used. Three male subjects and five female subjects participated in this study. The data were collected September-December, 2019 through in-depth individual interviews, and analysis based on the Giorgi's method. Results: Four clusters of themes were identified. They are: "Mental disability came as a burden of pain", "Painful time from caring due to being mentally recoiled and being hurtful", "My life is broken by illness", and "Hope discovered in the midst of pain". Conclusion: The findings provide deeper understanding and insight into the suffering experienced by primary caregivers for people with mental disabilities in community dwellings. A comprehensive program encompassing psychological and social aspects must be developed to facilitate resolving the problem of the suffering experienced by the primary caregiver for people with mental disabilities.