2025 Volume 35 Issue 2-1 Pages 1-13
〔Objective〕To identify nursing students learning through outpatient nursing practice in adult nursing （chronic illness nursing）practice.
〔Method〕A qualitative inductive analysis of the descriptions on the cards presented as learning from the outpatient nursing practice during the sharing of learning in groups referring to the KJ method.
〔Results〕The learning that students acquired through adult nursing practice （outpatient nursing practice）was classified into 8 categories. The categories were to efficiently support information gathering, medical treatment and examination under time constraints, which is a characteristic of the outpatient nursing, to gather information to capture the patient’s life situation and to support the family, which is the role of outpatient nursing, to support self-management, to coordinate with other professions, etc.
〔Conclusions〕The learning that students acquired was highly abstract, so it was not clear whether the learning led to an understanding of the real-life situation of patients living in the community, and whether it led to specific practices that responded to those situations. In the future, it is necessary to consider lectures and practical training programs that lead to practice adapted to the diversity and complexity of outpatient nursing.
