This research used a focus group interview method to understand nursing students' clinical experience in college. Data was created by Three focus groups consisted of 6~7 college nursing students. Data was analysed by phenomenological method. The result of the study, 5 dimensions emerged and these consisted of the following themes.
1) The change of daily life: 1st dimension's themes are 'life focused on clinical practice', 'breaking off friend-relations', 'physical fatigue', 'experience of physical symptoms due to stress', 'worried about her family'.
2) The change of personality: 2nd dimension's themes are 'being urgent', 'being obsessed', 'doing with her own'.
3) Low self respect: 3rd dimension's themes are 'low self esteem', 'the absence of her roles'.
4) Feeling of Burden: 4th dimension's themes are 'being strained', 'the stress of being evaluated'.
5) internal maturations: 5th dimension's themes are 'conflicts to emotional exchanges', 'finding out her own image on nurses', 'being recognized', 'being maturity'.
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