A Consideration on Nursing Students\u27 Experiential Learning of Inserting Nasal Feeding Tubes : Through Analysis by Kolb\u27s Experiential Learning Model(1)

Eighty nursing students have tried to experience the insertion of nasal feeding tubes by themselves. To elucidate educational effects and construct more favorable learning process, we investigated their reports described after performance by adapting those to Kolb\u27s theory of experiential learning. Before exercise, nursing students were feeling anxiety or fear originating from no experience of tubing. A guidance teacher should more actively assist students before practice by preparing more detailed explanation about patients\u27 circumstances and technique itself of inserting nasal feeding tubes. We have adapted their exercises to Kolb\u27s theory and obtained the following conclusion. We must lead nursing students to realize the contents of past activities in the second stage of reflective observation and to arrange obtained various knowledges including the procedure for more practicable goal in the third stage of abstract conceptualization