Phenomenological Research on the Clinical Practice Experience of Community Mental Health Welfare Center of Nursing Students

Abstract

During nursing education, clinical practice education is an important process that can be trained by applying the learned knowledge. Especially, in the next generation, it is difficult to completely perform tasks only with simple theoretical knowledge. Therefore, the learner's practical experience and convergence and complex thinking process are essential. This study was conducted to provide a theoretical basis for future education experts to establish practical education methods and strategies by examining the meaning and content of clinical practice experience by checking the experience of nursing students who are doing psychiatric nursing practice for the first time. The research method is a qualitative study intended to explore through phenomenological methods after in-depth interviews to understand the experiences of nursing students conducting clinical practice in mental health nursing at the Community Mental Health Welfare Center. As a result, the five essential themes are expectations for practice, the uniqueness of psychiatric practice, difficulty in the practice environment, awareness of the role of psychiatric nurses, and change through clinical practice. Through this study, continuous follow-up studies are suggested to understand students' perceptions and develop an appropriate curriculum for clinical practice education so that they can have confidence in psychiatric practice.