TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bantiles, Maria Krisha P.
AU  - De Leon, Ilona Joy M.
AU  - Guimba, Jeeda Abegail C.
AU  - Ilustre, Margie F.
TI  - Anxiety level and coping mechanisms of third year nursing students exposed in operating room
U1  - OCT BSN 0309 2008 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Tagaytay City
PB  - Olivarez College
N1  - Includes References, Appendices and Curriculum Vitae
N2  - ABSTARCT :
 Nursing students nowadays are exposed in different areas of the hospital. Their learning were measured by actually putting them in the field. One of these areas is the operating room wherein aseptic technique are practiced strictly. The researchers focuses in this area because operating room is one of the most stressful area not only to the students but even to the nurses who are already licensed. The level of anxiety can fluctuate overtime in response to both internal and external stimulation It is also associated with the general sense of incompetence. The favored passive approach seems to result from disbelief that a more active approach would be of any value. Students lacking confidence fail to engage actively with the material, thus fail to internalize concepts and then do poorly on assignments, thereby reinforcing the feeling of incompetence at the core of the cycle. The insecurity builds upon itself leading the student eventually to give up. 
Nursing as a course in college is difficult because it deals with medical 
subjects, match more as a profession because it involves interpersonal relationship between the doctor and the nurse, the patient and the nurse. 
Students majoring in nursing are often faced with dynamic, stressful and 
demanding situations in their clinical education. A lot of these situations include: 
using technical skills, managing higher acquity patients, integrating didactic theory into the clinical setting, long and early hours in the clinical setting, and 
dealing with staff who may or may not be accommodating in having the presence 
of student nurses on their unit. All of these situations and a lot more, lead to 
heightened sense of anxiety among nursing students as they begin their clinical 
rotation of the nursing programs especially those students enrolled in medical and surgical duties. On the other hand, students will be exposing in operating room must perform tasks that need a lot of concentration. This because it is observed that after each case, students that had assisted are stressed physically, mentally and emotionally. Statement of the Problem This study aimed to analyze the stress experienced and coping mechanisms of junior nursing students of Olivarez College in Operating Room. The study serves to answer the following questions: 1. What is the demographic profile of third year nursing students in terms of: > Age > Civil status > Gender 2. What is the level of anxiety of the junior students exposed in .Operating Room? 3. What are the coping mechanisms used by the third year nursing students exposed in Operating Room? 4. Is there a relationship between level of anxiety and coping mechanisms of third year nursing students exposed in Operating Room? Summary of Methodology: The researchers made a descriptive correlational type of research methodology. According to Fain (2004), the purpose of a descriptive correlational study is to describe and explained the nature of existing relationship, without necessarily clarifying the underlying causal factors in the relationship. It is a design that distributes the nature of a situation as it exists at the time of the study and explores the course of particular phenomena to discover facts in which professional judgment could be based. The researchers examine the strength of relationship between variables by determining how changes in one variable are 
Опе associated with changes in another variable. The researchers examine and report things the way they are in an effort to understand and explain them. The researchers conducted a study in Olivarez College, a private, non-sectarian, and stock-profit educational institution conceived and established in the belief that providing educational opportunities for the masses is the best legacy one can offer to the Filipino nation and the world. A family-owned educational institution committed to the intellectual, cultural, moral and physical development of its students. It also envisions the enhancement of the welfare and social well-being of the community. The researchers used likert scale to measure the outcome of the respondent's response in the study. . Likert Scale is a composite measure of response involving the summation of scores on a set of items that are rated by respondents for their degree of agreement and disagreement Focus- group discussion was utilized to gather information about the coping mechanisms of respondents. The researcher gathered 10-15 BSN III students and formulated 5 open-ended questions to be able to get their coping mechanism during their exposure in the operating room. The researchers was also solicited the permission from Mr. Rafael Salinas, the level III chairman of nursing students in Olivarez College to administer the data gathering instrument to intended subjects of the study. Summary of Findings: In the light at the data gathered, the study revealed the following: 1. On the demographic profile of the 3rd year BSN students of Olivarez College that are taking up NCM 102. 1.1 The respondents belong to the adolescent age group from 17-19 years old is 104 out of the 199 respondents, followed by 20-22 years old which attains 27.64% or a total of 12 respondents. Next is 29-31 which has the percentage of 6.53% or 13 of the total respondents. It is followed by 23-25 that has 6.03% or 12 of the respondents. Next is 26-28 that has 9 respondents in it, or 4.53%. After that is 32-34 which has 4 respondents and attains 2.01%. the 38-40 and 44-46 age group has both 1 respondent and got 0.50%. 35-37 and 41-43 have no respondent at all. 1.2. The female respondents are composed of 121 respondents while 78 are males. 1.3. There are 163 respondents who are first coursers while second coursers composed of 36 respondents. 1.4. There are 184 single respondents while there are 15 respondents. 2. Level of Anxiety of the junior nursing students exposed in Operating Room 2.1. There are 83 respondents who experienced no anxiety, 52 respondents experienced mild level of anxiety, 36 respondents who feels moderate level of anxiety. The other respondents feel severe level of anxiety while 3 respondents experienced panic level of anxiety. 3. Coping Mechanisms used by the third year nursing students exposed in AS 11 Operating Room 3.1. The respondents utilized the coping mechanism of praying which has a weighted mean of 4.14, followed by self discipline that has a weighted mean of 4.02.Next is relaxing and being comfortable which has 3.89. Followed it is being alert which has 3.87 weighted mean, then being attentive which has a weighted mean of 3.83. After that is concentrating which has 3.79, then thinking of happy memories followed which has 3.74. While thinking of music got a weighted mean of 3.71, then get used to the situation which has a weighted mean of 3.69 which are very oftenly used by the respondents as a coping mechanism. Last is do deep breathing that has a weighted mean of 3.29 which is oftenly used by the respondents. 4. The relationship between level of anxiety and coping mechanisms of third year nursing students exposed in Operating Room 4.1. There is no relationship between level of anxiety and coping mechanisms of third year nursing students exposed in Operating Room. Conclusions The following conclusions are drawn based on the findings of this study: 1. The researchers have the total age group ranging from 17-46 years old. Most of the respondent's ages are from the 17-19 groups which belong to the adolescent stage. Majority of the respondents are single and female. 2. The results of the study shows that most of the respondents are not experiencing anxiety prior to the exposure in the operating room, this is characterized by occasional shortness of breath, mild gastric symptoms such as butterflies in the stomach, facial twitches, trembling lips. 3. Prayer is the most coping mechanism that is utilized by the third year nursing students who is under anxiety.

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