A Qualitative Study of Nursing Students' first Clinical Experience

Park, Mi-Young; Kim, Soon-Yi

The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education 2000;6(1):23-35.
Published online June 30, 2000.

Park, Mi-Young;Kim, Soon-Yi;

¹Hyechon College
²Hyechon College

전문대 간호학생들의 첫 임상실습 체험 연구

박미영, 김순이

¹혜천대학 간호과
²혜천대학 간호과

Abstract

This qualitative nursing research used a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to discovery of meaning of the nursing students' clinical experience in junior colleges. Data collecting was utilized by in- depth face-to-face interviews of 10 sophomores who were participating in their first clinical experience. The following themes of the experience emerged. 1) The first step of fear (fear, being embarrassed) 2) Rhythmical patterning of theory and practice(disappointment of nurses, recognition of the gap between the theory and practice, the conflict between medical doctors and nurses, trouble with the students from other colleges, confusion from nurses' educational and noneducational attitudes, burden of responsibility for nurses' jobs, and the tiresome nature of repeated practice) 3) Discovery of changing self, awareness of self-expansion (awareness of professional nurses' roles, formation of self-confidence, changing of one's state of mind) From this study essential theme of clinical experience of nursing student's was identified, and continuous efforts to establish better adaptation of nursing students to clinical practice are required.

Key Words: Clinical experience