Abstract
In this study, an interview survey was conducted with the aim of clarifying the advantages and disadvantages perceived by students regarding pair practice in child health nursing education, and the results were qualitatively and inductively analyzed. As a result, the advantages of pair practice perceived by students were classified into the following five categories:“Progressing through practice in pairs gives me confidence,” “It is easy to build relationships with the clinical instructors and teachers,” “Learning and nursing are deepened through the complementary relationship with my fellow pair student,” “The pair student approach motivates me to learn,” “Pair practice deepens the relationship between the students who are paired.” The disadvantages of pair learning were classified into the following four categories:“It’s difficult for me to state my own opinion,” “Learning is left up to each pair of students,” “Pairing results in insufficient acquisition of nursing techniques,” and “I feel inferior to my fellow pair student.” These results suggest that clinical instructors and teachers must be more involved for pair practice to be effective. They can do so by expanding upon the advantages of pair practice and by compensating for the disadvantages by providing support based on a consideration of the interpersonal relationships and communication between the students, by judging whether each student in the pair is achieving equivalent learning outcomes, and by making suitable adjustments to facilitate learning in order to create an effect learning environment.
