Purpose: Nursing education should be considered the training for professional nurses who can deliver high quality care to meet the needs of health consumers. This study was aimed at evaluation on practice satisfaction of nursing student in the community.
Method: The data was collected from 107 students at 4 colleges and 72 students at 3 universities in Daegu city from March 1st to June 30th, 2001. This study was investigated by the questionnaire which was consisted of general characteristics, recognition of nursing and practice satisfaction. The questionnaire of practice satisfaction used in this study was modified from Lee, S.J.(1980)´s and Park(1994)´s questionnaire. The data was analyzed by SAS(ver. 6.12) program and statistical methods used were mean, standard deviation and ANOVA(analysis of variables).
Result: The findings of this study were as follows:
1. Students showed that nursing is a kind of activities for promotion of health, prevention of disease, recovery of health and relieving of pain in the recognition of the nursing.
2. Students showed that the community- practice gives an opportunity to learn the relationship with health team for the solution of trouble patients in the recognition for the necessity of the community-practice.
3. In the practice satisfaction, students gained high score in evaluation, but especially low score in instruct of the community-practice.
4. The general characteristics which affected practice satisfaction were grade, motivation of nursing selection and duration of practice in the community-practice.
Conclusion: As theses results it was necessary to prepare the programed and developed practice-education in the community.
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