Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze how public health nurse students learn community-health nursing diagnosis during community-health nursing training and to collect basic data to educate them about the fundamental ability necessary to make a community-health nursing diagnosis. Procedures: Out of 22 seniors at E College, 10 who consented in writing and who attended the orientation during training were selected. The contents of their training journals were qualitatively analyzed to find the learning process of community-health nursing diagnosis. Results: 1. During the local orientation they learned health services necessary to the community from the viewpoint of systems of a public health center and the local government, public health services, and public health nurse's activities. At the first inspection they realized how people live in terms of natural environment, traffic, and groups of people. 2. By analyzing the training journals longitudinally, it became apparent that the learning process of community-health nursing diagnosis has 5 stages: they see the real images of people and community; they see objects concerning subjects; they analyze connecting data; they extract health problems and find the background and advantage of the community; they realize the outline of designing a plan. The analysis of data during the community-health nursing diagnosis seemed to follow the thinking process that after grasping the picture of the community roughly, they focus on and integrate data. As stated above, the learning process of students in community-health nursing diagnosis became clear. The necessity to assist them during each stage was also suggested.
