Table 1 Categories for nursing students’ operating room experience

Key meanings Sub-categories Categories
Provide a safe surgical environment for patients through cooperation. Collaborate to create a safe environment Care environment in operating room based on cooperation
Create a safe environment by efficiently cooperating according to each given role and task.
Collaboration should be based on trust among medical staff. Trust and care for each other for cooperation
Emotional attitude makes team cooperation difficult.
Horizontal communication facilitates team cooperation.
Understanding and considering the other’s work is necessary for team cooperation.
Share their task through communication and work efficiently. Communication is important in providing care
Providing the best care for patients through communication.
Communication is important to cope with various situations.
Manage resources in the operating room through communication, and distribute and utilize it by quickly determining.
It is important to understand and understand patients well for accurate communication. Constantly striving for accurate communication
Constantly striving to acquire the clinical knowledge necessary for communication.
Providing nursing from the patient’s point of view for the well-being of the subject. Operating room provides psychological care without missing out Nurse as a advocator of surgery patients
Feel the timing and importance of psychological intervention in the operating room.
Trying to form a rapport in the O.R.
Provides supportive nursing for patient anxiety.
Provide a safe environment for patients through infection control and supervision. Confirm and observe essential procedures repeatedly
Continuing safety activities by checking the basic repetitive procedures.
It is important to maintain a sterile environment. Confirm and observe essential procedures repeatedly Nurse as a advocator of surgery patients
Recognize and practice repetitive confirmation.
Team members participating in the surgery repeatedly check the same content.
The surgical team repeatedly checks the patient’s condition.
Various procedures for patient safety are in place and followed.
Attitude of practicing patient safety activities is needed.
Activities are being carried out to prevent falls of patients.
Beware word and action in front of anesthetized patients. Respect surgery patients as a human being
Minimize patient physical exposure in the operating room.
Sensitive recognition and management of the exposure of the patient’s body parts.
Provide repeated and tailored training to the patient.
Providing nursing care with respect for patients as human beings.
Considering about the attitude as a professional in a surgical environment where the patient’s body is exposed. Consider about the attitude as a healthcare professional to protect vulnerable Professionalism and growth as a prospective surgical nurse
Practicing to protect patient’ personal information.
Learn that respect for patients should be applied to all nursing practices.
High ethical awareness is required in nursing vulnerable patients.
An honest and ethical attitude is required for a safe environment.
The patient’s position should be considered more sensitive than any other department.
Feel the respect and attitude of vulnerable patients from medical staff.
More attention is needed to respect patients and protect their privacy because they are unconscious. Consider about the attitude as a healthcare professional to protect vulnerable Professionalism and growth as a prospective surgical nurse
Growing up from a student to a prospective nurse. Develop oneself as a nurse
Hope to grow into the ideal nurse think they are.
Expanding perspective on the role and work of nurses.
Feel responsible for nursing practice.
Practice mediating anxiety directly on patients. Practice surgical nursing, and feel responsible and professional consciousness
Time to actually observe or apply a theory.
Have an opportunity to practice surgical nursing on their own.
Experience that even a small mistake can endanger the patient’s life.
Experience the tasks and responsibilities of actual medical staff through practice.
Realize work ethic for a job is important as a job connected to life.
Listen and learn about nursing professionalism through an operating room nurse.