The Matters of Interest of the Students in Clinical Training Experience of the Adult （Chronic） Nursing

−The content analysis of the reports−

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the matters of interest of nursing students by performing the content analysis of the reports after the clinical training experience of the adult （chronic） nursing. Data used for the analysis was description of the reports submitted by 139 students of third school years. The matters of interest were analyzed on the context and the meaning of the description of the reports, and titles were extracted. Those titles were grouped based on the similarity of the meaning of contents, and categories were attached to express an essential meaning. Forty titles were extracted as the matters of interest, and they were classified into 12 categories. As the common characteristics among these 12 categories were examined, three aspects were suggested such as ［Interest to the self］, ［Interest to the patient］, ［Interest to methods / conception］. When analyzing three aspects, it was clarified that some students’ interest was concentrated into ［Interest to the self］, ［Interest to methods / conception］rather than ［Interest to the patient］. In addition, some matters of interest within ［Interest to the patient］ showed wrong interpretation by students. These results of intervention suggested that it is an important role for educators in the clinical training to help “giving a deep significance to the experience” educationally.