Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review
The paper discusses how volunteerism, especially among nursing students, helps solve health crises. The study emphasizes community preparedness and volunteers’ unique role in supporting healthcare professionals during crises. Volunteers seek out opportunities to help, unlike emergency responders. Nu...
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| author | Pradeepti Prashar Dinesh Kumar Sharma Bandana Mohinder Santosh Kumari |
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| description | The paper discusses how volunteerism, especially among nursing students, helps solve health crises. The study emphasizes community preparedness and volunteers’ unique role in supporting healthcare professionals during crises. Volunteers seek out opportunities to help, unlike emergency responders. Nursing students, a major employment source, are shown to be capable of first aid and emotional support. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the unprecedented need for volunteers. Research shows that nursing students worldwide are willing to help in health emergencies. Professional ethics, humanity, and learning motivate. Self-care issues, system support issues, and psychological impacts are obstacles. The study uses a mixed-methods technique and the PRISMA framework to examine nursing students’ health crisis volunteering experiences, goals, and perceptions. The data show volunteer nursing students’ pleasures and problems. Although volunteering is rewarding, worries about self-care, family well-being, and psychological effects arise. Emotional stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, anxiety, sleep difficulties, guilt, and a lack of support affect nursing students’ mental health. Witnessing and experiencing health emergencies can cause emotional stress, highlighting the need for personalized solutions. The report recommends cash incentives, extensive training, and explicit protocols to increase student volunteering. Nursing students can safely volunteer in high-stress situations by recognizing and addressing the mental health risks and providing support and tools. The article recommends a holistic approach to volunteerism that recognizes its benefits and promotes the mental health and well-being of motivated nursing students. Nursing students helping in health emergencies need sufficient training, psychological support, and self-care to protect their mental health, according to the study. Providing support, shifting schedules, and understanding the emotional toll of employment are vital. Nursing schools should include emergency response training to prepare students for pandemic leadership. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-668e5830ed404868a5967b3db790a53b2025-02-08T08:40:16ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing2231-15052666-528X2023-12-0120215816710.4103/iopn.iopn_59_23Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic ReviewPradeepti PrasharDinesh Kumar SharmaBandana MohinderSantosh KumariThe paper discusses how volunteerism, especially among nursing students, helps solve health crises. The study emphasizes community preparedness and volunteers’ unique role in supporting healthcare professionals during crises. Volunteers seek out opportunities to help, unlike emergency responders. Nursing students, a major employment source, are shown to be capable of first aid and emotional support. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the unprecedented need for volunteers. Research shows that nursing students worldwide are willing to help in health emergencies. Professional ethics, humanity, and learning motivate. Self-care issues, system support issues, and psychological impacts are obstacles. The study uses a mixed-methods technique and the PRISMA framework to examine nursing students’ health crisis volunteering experiences, goals, and perceptions. The data show volunteer nursing students’ pleasures and problems. Although volunteering is rewarding, worries about self-care, family well-being, and psychological effects arise. Emotional stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, anxiety, sleep difficulties, guilt, and a lack of support affect nursing students’ mental health. Witnessing and experiencing health emergencies can cause emotional stress, highlighting the need for personalized solutions. The report recommends cash incentives, extensive training, and explicit protocols to increase student volunteering. Nursing students can safely volunteer in high-stress situations by recognizing and addressing the mental health risks and providing support and tools. The article recommends a holistic approach to volunteerism that recognizes its benefits and promotes the mental health and well-being of motivated nursing students. Nursing students helping in health emergencies need sufficient training, psychological support, and self-care to protect their mental health, according to the study. Providing support, shifting schedules, and understanding the emotional toll of employment are vital. Nursing schools should include emergency response training to prepare students for pandemic leadership.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/iopn.iopn_59_23experienceshealth emergenciesstudent nursesvolunteeringwillingness |
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| title | Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review |
| title_full | Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review |
| title_fullStr | Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review |
| title_short | Experiences and Perspectives of Student Nurses Toward Volunteerism during Health Emergencies: A Systematic Review |
| title_sort | experiences and perspectives of student nurses toward volunteerism during health emergencies a systematic review |
| topic | experiences health emergencies student nurses volunteering willingness |
| url | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/iopn.iopn_59_23 |
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