Image of Nurse Perceived by Nursing Student Before and After Their First Clinical Practice

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify changes in image of nurses of nursing students before and after their first clinical practice. Methods: The survey was performed to 60 nursing students in one university in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do. All participants had their first clinical practice for 8 weeks at four general hospitals in Seoul. The data were collected by questionnaires and were analyzed with frequency, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA using SPSS 19.0. Results: After the first clinical practice, the mean score (4.05 ± 0.85) of the image of nurse was slightly higher than that of the image (4.03 ± 0.93) before the clinical practice. However, there was no statistical significance in the scores between before and after the clinical practice (t =-0.55, p =.589). In four subcategories, before the first clinical practice, professional image was the highest followed by traditional, personal, and social image in order but after the clinical practice, professional image was th