[A study on clinical teaching method in nursing education--focusing on teaching method of touching]

The purpose of this study is the development of effective clinical teaching methods of nursing education using touching in hospital nursing care. The clinical teaching-learning process was designed based on the Steinaker, N.W. & R. Bell's experiential learning model (1979), in which teaching-learning process was divided into five steps-exposure, participation, identification, internalization, and dissemination. Three hypotheses were postulated as follows: 1-1. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in nursing care will make them conscious of the efficiency of touching. 1-2. Nursing students will grasp the efficiency of their nursing action by "cause and effect" relations. 2-0. Guidance given to nursing students to use touching in their nursing care will allay and soften their anxiety and tension toward such nursing practices. 3-0. Nursing intervention by touching will heighten the clinical judgement ability of nursing students. The teaching-learning plan was carried out in a nursing school in Kitakyushu-shi. Fifteen nursing students studied by this plan. The results was as follows: a. Hypotheses 1-1, 1-2, 2-0, were confirmed. b. Hypothesis 3-0, was not confirmed.