• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.357-367
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• 2020

This study is a qualitative study conducted to understand and explain the operating room practice experience of nursing college students. Participants in this study were 67 nursing college students in 3rd and 4th grade at a university in C-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do who participated in the practice of operating rooms. The data collection period was from January 14, 2019 to January 13, 2020, and the data collection was carried out through an open self-report-style reflection log, and the collected data was analyzed using the traditional content analysis method of Krippendorff [21]. Analysis of the operating room practice experience of nursing college students resulted in 27 sub-themes, 12 themes and 5 categories. The five categories are "Being seized with complicated feelings," "Being faced with dissection body," "Learning the characteristics of the operating room, " "Being confronted with the limits of clinical practice" and "Self-reflection." The results of this study provided an understanding of the operating room practice experience of nursing students and are expected to be used as basic data to improve the quality of practice of nursing students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.297-305
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate Stress Coping Type, Professor-student Interaction, Major Satisfaction on Life Stress of Nursing Students. The data were collected using questionnaire from 146 nursing students, May 27 to May 30, 2018 at a college in the J city. The analysis of the data was done through SPSS 20.0/window statistical analysis by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression. Upon examining the correlation between Life Stress and Professor-student Interaction, Major Satisfaction the correlation was significant. The result of the multiple regression indicates the Professor-student Interaction(β=-.34, p<.001) predict 29.5%(F=9.70, p<.001). Based on the results of the study, it is expected to be used as basic data for various programs to improve professor - student interaction of nursing students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.263-272
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• 2017

This study aimed to investigate the effect of communication competence on the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-esteem among nursing students. The study is a cross-sectional survey and the participants were 173 students from one university located in M city. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression and Sobel test to test the significance of a mediation effect using SPSS 21 software. Results of the multiple regression were that communication competence had a significant positive effect on self-esteem and played a partially mediating role between emotional intelligence and self-esteem in nursing students. These findings imply that communication competence is important to improve the level of self-esteem in nursing students. This study highlights the value of fostering communication competence and the need to develop various convergence education strategies to promote communication competence in a balanced way to cultivate nursing students' self-esteem.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.331-340
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of student-generated questions (SGQs) partially applied in a pathology course on learning motivation, communication abilities, and problem-solving skills in nursing students. A one-group pretest-posttest design was employed to conduct this study with 106 nursing students taking the pathology course in a university-setting. Data were analyzed using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test in SPSS version 20. The results showed that communication and problem-solving skills were significantly improved at the end of the semester compared to the beginning. The findings imply that SGQs could be an effective means to improve nursing students' skills of communication and problem solving. To equip nursing students with such core competencies, teaching-learning methods combined various strategies should be developed and applied to nursing education.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.257-265
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• 2019

This study is a descriptive study to investigate the effects of communication competence and compassionate competence on academic self-efficacy of nursing students. The subjects of this study were 131 nursing students and the data collection was from November 5 to 30, 2018. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. Significant relationships were found among communication competence and compassionate competence and academic self-efficacy. Motivation for admission, adaptation of nursing, participation on practice and compassion competence were found to academic self-efficacy. Therefore, in order to increase the academic self-efficacy it is necessary to make efforts to increase the participation on practice and to improve compassion competence as a strategy to increase academic self-efficacy of nursing students.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.619-628
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• 2021

This study tried to find out the degree of emotional intelligence and moral sensitivity of nursing students and their effect on caring efficacy. Data collection was conducted online from January 14 to 23, 2021 for 143 students from 1st to 4th grade at 3 nursing colleges located in one province. For data analysis, using SPSS/WIN 23.0, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA and Duncan test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression were used. As a result of the study, emotional intelligence was confirmed as an influencing factor of caring efficacy, specifically emotional utilization (p=.005), emotional regulation (p=.027), and emotional recognition of others (p=.037), and the explanatory power was 26.2%. Therefore, in order to increase the nursing students' sense of caring efficacy, it is necessary to develop nursing education and content development that can improve individual emotional intelligence of nursing students.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.537-542
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• 2021

This study aimed to understand and analyze the instructors' class satisfaction and the effectiveness of online general education classes perceived by instructors after inevitable COVID-19. A total of 54 instructors participated in the survey conducted at the end of the spring semester 2021 at C University located Gyeongsangnam-do. Findings revealed that instructors' satisfaction with their online classes was relatively low(2.80), and they negatively perceived their online classes. Also they show negative perception of the variable, interaction with learners(2.87). However, they show higher satisfaction with the next variables than the overall satisfaction; class management, online learning platform, and asynchronous online learning. Plus, a statistically significant result is that online learning platform have the biggest effect on the instructors' class satisfaction. Therefore, we need to know that instructors have to get familiar with the online learning platform and universities help them provide a variety of training sessions regarding online learning platforms. This study has limitations in that it was conducted only at one college and the limited number of variables was measured.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.343-349
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• 2021

This study aimed to investigate the effect of smart-phone addiction on the between interpersonal relationship ability and academic achievement among nursing students. The study is a cross-sectional survey and the participants were 160 students from one university located in G city. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression and Sobel test to test the significance of a mediation effect using SPSS 25 software. Results of the multiple regression were that smartphone addiction, had a significant negative effect on interpersonal relationship ability and academic achievement in nursing students. These findings imply that cinterpersonal relationship ability is important to improve the level of academic achievement in nursing students. This study highlights the value of interpersonal relationship ability and the need to develop various convergence education strategies to promote smartphone addiction managment way to cultivate nursing students' academic achievement.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.327-337
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to identify the levels and to analyze their correlations of decision-making-competency, adjustment to college life, satisfaction to college life in freshmen. The subjects were 325 freshmen. Data were collected through structured questionnaire from September to October, 2009, and analyzed with SPSS 17.0. The results of this study were as follows: decision-making-competency of college freshmen was $61.77{\pm}7.70$, adjusting to college life was $60.97{\pm}8.94$, and satisfaction to college life was $57.97{\pm}10.80$. Relationships between adjusting to college life and decision-making-competency in college freshmen (r=.159, p<.001), between decision-making-competency and satisfaction to college life (r=.121, p<.05), between adjustment to college life and satisfaction to college life (r=.543, p<.001) showed a statistically significant positive correlations. These results will be used for developing programs for the college freshmen in adjusting to college life and student dropout prevention.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.10
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• pp.143-150
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-esteem, quality of life, and depression of nursing students, and to determine the effect on depression. The subjects of the study were 311 nursing students and collected data from November 20 to December 5, 2017. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS 21.0 program, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression analysis. As a result, there were significant differences in college life satisfaction among general characteristics. Self-esteem was 3.37, quality of life was 3.54, and depression was 16.52. Depression was found to have a significant negative correlation with quality of life. The most significant influence on depression was quality of life, and the explanatory power was 48.2%. Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to develop and apply intervention programs to prevent depression of nursing students.