LITERATURE REVIEW: GAMBARAN KECEMASAN PADA MAHASISWA KEPERAWATAN DALAM MENGHADAPI PRAKTIKUM

Background: Anxiety is a condition in individuals who unable to have self-control of themselves so that there are unclear worries, feeling of helplessness and uncertainness. One of the contemporary community groups which susceptible with the anxiety problem is students, it is related to the presence of stressor due to the desire to get good grades that can effect career development in the future. Objective: Knowing the overview of anxiety of nursing students in face practicum. Method: This study using the quantitative non-experimental method.The searching of database is throughPubMedandScience Direct, with the using keyword “Anxiety,” “Nursing Student,” and“Practicum.” Colleting matrixes and presenting data are divided into several points, such as: the name of the researcher and the year, title, research design, place of the research, respondent characteristics, instrument as well as data retrieval, result, and description or argument. Result: Literature review in this study indicates that students experience anxiety in the face of practicum, with several originators such as; distrust, doubts arise, fear of failure in therapeutic interpretation, the patient’s conditions, and anxiety due to instructor’s assessment. Those such anxiety affect the students in the form of; feeling of distress, insomnia, fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, loss of confidence, headache, menstrual disorder and crying. Coping done by the students to face the anxiety, among others: prepare the practicum better, doing several activities to release the feeling of anxiety, doing several distraction, and facing the source of anxiety. Instructor has a role in risk management of anxiety on the students. Conclusion: Anxiety can occur to nursing students in the face of practicum with the impact that can be felt by the students. Coping and risk management can minimize the impact that occurs, it can be done by students or instructors.