J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs.  2021 Mar;30(1):76-87. 10.12934/jkpmhn.2021.30.1.76.

Self-awareness Experience of Nursing Students through a Short-Term Overseas Language Study

• Son M
• Kim S

• KMID: 2515006
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2021.30.1.76

Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of self-awareness of nursing students through a short-term overseas language study.

Methods
Study subjects were 10 nursing students, and collected data were analyzed with open coding, axial coding, selective coding, and process analysis based on Strauss and Corbin's grounded theory (1998).

Results
In total, 23 sub-categories and 12 categories were generated. The 12 categories included "Longing for a bigger world", "Don't want to be intimidated", "Interest in English", "Tension about local classes", "Feeling of pushing the limit", "Getting along with natives", “Making Korean American University students a role model", "Self-observe confronting unfamiliarity", "Self-encourage about enduring hardships", "Self-expansion for a better self", "Recognize self-transformation", "Focusing on the reality". Nursing students' self-awareness experience through a short-term overseas language study was a process of solving the phenomenon of 'feeling of pushing the limit', and a derived core category was 'surpass the feeling of pushing the limit and take a step forward'.

Conclusion
Study participants experienced self-awareness. These results will not only expand our understanding about self-awareness of nursing students and educators but will also provide information for developing a short-term overseas study program.

Keyword

Awareness; Grounded theory; Nursing students; Qualitative research; 인식; 근거 이론; 간호학생; 질적연구