2023 Volume 33 Issue 3-1 Pages 17-27
〔Aims〕This study explores the difficulties faced by teachers while dealing with working adult students who are experienced assistant nurses, during the clinical practice of a two-year course at a nursing training school. This study also observes how these teachers perceive and respond to the students.
〔Methods〕Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six research participants who were teachers of the two-year nursing course at a nurse training school. The results were qualitatively and descriptively analyzed.
〔Results〕The teachers described the clinical practice of working adult students with experience as assistant nurses as “doing things quickly,” “rely on manual,” and “going back to what they have already learned,” which they described as the “barrier of experience.” In response to this, the participants stated that they had to “break down this barrier of experience” and “bear with it;” however, they found it difficult to correct student behaviors that rely on experience.
〔Conclusions〕The teachers believed that the “barrier of experience” hindered their students from learning what was taught. However, they were trying to break down this barrier. However, it is conceivable that the teachers who regarded students’ experience as a barrier, were the ones who needed to change of viewpoint.
