Purpose
The aim of this study was to gain in-depth understanding and insight into how student nurses experienced communication with professors.
Methods
The research method was a qualitative study in which data were collected and analyzed through in-depth interviews with individual students. Colaizzi's phenomenological research method was used. The participants in this study were students who graduated from the nursing department and were considered able to describe the communication experience between professors and students in the college of.nursing.
Results
The analysis showed that the communication experiences between professors and students who had graduated from the college of nursing consisted of six themes for a total of 15 themes clusters and 78 meaningful statements. The 6 theme-clusters were ‘invisible barrier between participant and professors’, ‘motivational driving force’, ‘enrich meta cognition through experiential discourse’, ‘having a dream of lifelong development’, ‘wanting to have meaningful encounters’.
Conclusion
The participants were not able to easily form relationships with the professors of the college of nursing during their academic life, but they learned the practical know-how from the strengths and experiences of the professors that led them from beginning student to graduate nurse.

Citations

• The college life experiences of nursing students who are North Korean defectors: A thematic analysis study
  Da-Eun Seo, Kyung-Sook Bang, Hyunju Kang
  The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education.2025; 31(1): 96.     CrossRef
• Nursing faculty’s experiences of teaching North Korean defector nursing students
  Kyung-Sook Bang, Hyunju Kang, Da-Eun Seo
  The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education.2025; 31(2): 183.     CrossRef