Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and analyze the education experiences of nursing graduate students in training simulation educators. Methods: Data were collected using a focus group method with a total of 13 nursing graduate students who ever participated in simulation education for nursing college students. Results: Four theme clusters and 15 sub-themes were emerged through qualitative content analysis. The core theme was “Flapping wings as a novice simulation educator”. The four theme clusters include ‘Confronting myself where expectations and worries coexist’, ‘Experience a new world untrained in the hospital’, ‘Limitation of simulation hard to reach the reality’, ‘Way to become an expert in simulation education’. Conclusion: Nursing graduate students found that the experiences of novice learners as a simulation educator was rewarding and helpful in increasing their self-confidence prior to being placed in an educational setting. Creating a simulation experience for college students could be a daunting task for educators in nursing. Therefore, continued and sustainable efforts are mandated by developing the curriculum for training simulation educators.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning and nature of the experiences of adult patients infected with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) when they were teens. Methods: To this end, we analyzed how the experience was interpreted in their daily lives and what its meaning was through the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), a new method of extensive qualitative research in the UK. Among the confirmed HIV infections in teenagers, three people who agreed to participate in the study were men in their 20s and 30s. Participants were interviewed in-depth to collect data and the data was analyzed and interpreted using IPA. Results: As the results, eight themes and 18 sub-themes were derived from meaningful statements through in-depth analysis, and these were categorized into 4 categories. The four categories included ‘shock and despair’, ‘realistic difficulties’, ‘barriers in relationships’, and ‘life transitions’. Conclusion: Adolescent infected persons had support from their families or surroundings, and this positively influenced on the recovery of infected persons. We discussed the implications of the understanding of HIV infection, changes in social perception, the need for correct sex education, and the experiences of teenagers infected with HIV, and suggested follow-up studies.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand in-depth experiences of role conflict among infection control nurses’ (ICNs) in terms of the gaps between the role expectations and actual roles. Methods: This study was a qualitative study to explore and describe the implications of role conflict experiences of ICNs through a phenomenological approach. One-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted with ICNs who worked as full-time for more than three years in the infection control department, and the results were analyzed using Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenological method. Results: Topics brought up by the participants were categorized into five themes. The themes included "lack of awareness of infection control", "psychological burden of professional competence", "infectious control not being accepted due to different management and operational goals", "unrelentingly overworked", "shadow labor without adequate compensation", and "The process of earning mutual trust". Conclusion: In order to resolve the role conflict of ICNs, it is necessary to establish a career management system for ICNs and to have an appropriate compensation system.

Purpose: This study was to identify the perception of death in nursing students. Methods: This study adopted the triangulation method. The participants was third grade nursing students. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Qualitative data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Among the participants' perception of death, the highest score was the respect for life, and the lowest was anxiety about death. The participants believed that there was a relatively happy and unfortunate death, and that well-dying was achieved through acceptance, reflection, and rigorous preparation in life. Well-dying was possible only when well-being was proceeded. Nursing students perceived death as the end stage of life that needed preparation. Conclusion: It is necessary for nursing students to have opportunities to reflect on death when they observe a patient’s death in clinical practice. Also, they need to have death-related education for them to grow as competent nurses to deal with life and death journey of their patients in future.

Purpose: This study was aimed to analyze the research trends by investigating the nursing theories used in research articles in Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing for the last 10 years. Methods: Among the research articles published in the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing for the past 10 years from 2010 to 2019, the research trends was analyzed by investigating the nursing theories used in the studies. Results: As the results of a survey of 847 papers published in the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing from 2010 to 2019, 139 studies applied to the theory were extracted. As for the theory, one Grand Theory, Roy’s adaptation model, and 6 Middle Range Theories including Kolcaba’s comfort theory, Pender's health promotion model, King's goal attainment theory, Watson's human caring theory, Reed's self-transcendence theory, Mishel's uncertainty in illness theory. Conclusion: In nursing, more use of nursing theories in research is necessary in the future, not only in quantitative research methods but also in qualitative research.

Purpose: This study was aimed to examine the background of the emergence of qualitative research and the purpose pursued by qualitative research. Based on this, it was to derive ethical principles and considerations that the researcher should reflect and practice in the process of conducting qualitative research. Methods: A review article was constructed by collecting and analyzing extensive literature related to the research ethics topics. Results: In a human subject research, both positivistic and qualitative researchers should most sensitively consider the protection of the research subjects, especially those in vulnerable situations. Ethical principles for human subject research can be suggested as follows. The first is to respect and protect the subject's autonomy, which is linked to the principle of informed consent and subject protection. Second, the researcher should conduct research according to the best interests of the study participants. This is linked to the selection of research topics and the reciprocity of the research results. Third, it is necessary to maintain an open attitude to the study participants. To this end, it is also linked to the researcher's open and sympathetic attitude to respect the emotions and experiences of the study participants, and to treat them truthfully without hiding or deceived during the data collection process. Conclusion: The core purpose of qualitative research is to restore humanity. Qualitative research needs to go deeper into the lives of others. Researchers who are conducting qualitative research must reflect on ethics and consider ethical guidelines.