Students’ Learning from Community-based Nursing Clinical Practice in a Remote Island

PURPOSE: This paper reports on the students’ experience of community-based nursing practice in a remote island and what they learned, and discuss the meaning from community-based nursing practice and suggest more effective clinical practice for the future. METHODS: We described how we expanded the clinical practice and analyzed students’ report to know what they learned. Extracted learning from the students’ report description was classified and organized according to the contents and concept. RESULTS: The five contents that emerged from the analysis of the students’ report were; 1) Actual states of this area, 2) Environments affect residents’ consciousness, 3) People live in the “connection with people”, 4) The importance of understanding the residence life in the home, and 5) Knowing community makes more understanding of a person. DISCUSSION: Students deepened their understanding of community. Each student’s theme was different, however, by grasping the whole region from each aspect, they could extract common concepts in the community. Moreover, they learned the importance of understanding actual community state to understand people who are subjects of nursing care