2017 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 22-30
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify qualitatively the reflection on reflective practice for public health nursing students to increase the competency of public health nurses through health promotion activities.
Method: 20 public health nursing students participated in this study. The subjects of this study were reflective journals for six students submitted five times at reflective practice during about 8 weeks, and which were judged according to selection criteria to check the richness of data.
Result: As a result of SCAT, the concepts that constitute reflection such as “reflective ruler”, which is a tool to know oneself objectively, were extracted. The public health nursing students learn about “sympathy” and “commitment” which are abilities to increase the competency of public health nurses through reflection.
Conclusion: The concepts constituting the reflection of public health nursing students included the reflective skill by Atkins & Murphy, namely, self-awareness, description, critical analysis, synthesis, evaluation. These results suggest that these concepts can enable an evaluation of the reflection.
