Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the change of learning experienced by nurse students between learning in classroom and adult nursing clinical course (perioperative) according to situated learning theory. Students' learning process in classroom and nursing clinical course was observed, and 9 students completed semi-structured interviews after perioperative nursing clinical course. Then the date was analyzed by Modified Grounded Theory Approach. The result revealed that students experienced the change that they could not really feel importance of practice based on theoretical ground in classroom but came to be able to feel one as they participated in nursing clinical course. And 3 categories was constructed as differences between the classroom and the nursing clinical course relate to this change: "the way of appearance of tasks and process solving ones", "the lowest needed action and free actions", "the success or failure premised by organization". These findings may provide systematic realization of the learning process of student nurses who are in transition from classrooms to nursing clinical course, and some clues to improve education circumstance.
