Purpose: Purpose of this study was to examine improvement demanded on health teacher practice. The ultimate goal is to explore the development and improvement of teaching practicum for nursing students.
Method: Subjects of this study were 244 nursin...
Purpose: Purpose of this study was to examine improvement demanded on health teacher practice. The ultimate goal is to explore the development and improvement of teaching practicum for nursing students.
Method: Subjects of this study were 244 nursing senior students from 42 universities in Korea. Official document was posted to each university for research permission. The data were collected by an open question from September 1^(st) to October 31^(st) 2010. The research question was *What is your demand in order to improve the health teaching practicum?* Questionnaire by mail was distributed and retrieved. The data was analyzed with content analysis after referee*s review and numerous times in-depth discussions.
Results: 5 categories emerged from 15 theme clusters. The categories were contents of health teaching, curriculum of health teaching, practice hours and time, environment of practice, and awareness of health teacher. The students preferentially demanded improvement on contents and curriculum of health teacher education.
Conclusion: To improve the health teacher training and provide a high quality education, it should be needed to make practice manual, seek proper duration of health teacher practice, cooperate university with practice school, and support manpower as school health teacher and environment.