Purpose: This study aimed to explore the practical experience of nursing graduates through a clinical practicum alternative program during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Participants in this study comprised sixteen students who had gone through clinical field practice and clinical alternative programs during 4 semesters at nursing college. Data were collected through individual in-depth interviews and analyzed via the phenomenological research method developed by Colaizzi. Results: From the meaningful statements offered by the participants, six theme clusters emerged: (a) interest in new experiences, (b) practice that doesn’t feel like practice, (c) limits on yourself, (d) ambivalence about alternative programs, (e) longing for vivid clinical settings, and (f) choice in an unavoidable situation. Conclusion: This study provides a profound understanding of the practical experiences of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic situation about the clinical practicum alternative program. Based on this study, it is necessary to determine how students who have participated in the implementation of the clinical practice alternative program are adapting to the actual field as nurses. It is also necessary to develop various programs that reflect the needs of students and utilize technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and metaverse along with current teaching methods.

전 세계적으로 선복량의 증가와 더불어 선원의 수요는 지속적인 증가세가 예상된다. 또한 지난 몇 년 동안 경험해 왔던 바와 같이 세계 경기가 회복세로 돌아설 때 해기사 부족 현상이 재발될 것이 우려된다. 발틱국제해사협의회(BIMCO)와 국제해운연맹(ISF)의 2010년 보고에는 유능한 해기사를 양성해내기 위한 지속적인 노력을 경주하는 것이 불확실한 시나리오에 대비하여 산업계의 손실을 줄일 수 있을 것이라고 밝혔다. OECD회원국인 한국은 조선산업의 강국이며 또한 해운선단의 지속적인 확장세를 보여주고 있는 나라이다. 한편, 필리핀은 여전히 상선 인력의 주공급원으로 인식되어 있다. 이 논문에서는 두 나라 해양계 졸업생들의 진로에 관한 통계적 비교를 살펴보았다. 결론적으로, 국제 해사 교육 및 실습에 관한 교류협력에 초점을 맞춘 한국과 필리핀사이의 상호 협력 관계가 확립되어야 한다고 제안한다.

The objective of this study was to propse the way that could enlarge the course in life for the graduates of Department of Food and Nutrition in Junior College. This study was carried out through the analysis of statistical data and questionaries gathered from professors of Department of Food and Nutrition in Junior College and from dieticians of industry, school and hospital. The results of this study could be summarized as follows. 1. The cultivation number of dieticians is too excessive in comparison with the need, and so it is necessary for the colleges to restrict the new establishment of Department of Food and Nutrition for a time, and for the government to tighten the employment system of dieticians. 2. The employment of dieticians will be extended to such fields as school, hospital, public health center and counsel office of nutrition to act as a nutritional educator or a medical server in the future, and consequently the colleges which cultivate dieticians should improve the curriculum to agree with this. 3. It is necessary for the government to renovate the system of dietician arrangement to such a way as establishes a new rule in which additional dietician should be employed in accordance with the feeding number in industry and hospital, as restricts the position-combine of a dietician with a cook in a large feeding institute, as gives the qualification of a nutritional instructor only to the diatician at public health center, as gives the qualification of a nutrition -teacher to the dieticians who completed the course of study for the teaching profession and then allows them to act as a nutrition-teacher in school. 4. The way to give a higher grade of educational opportunity should be given to the graduates of Department of Food and Nutrition in Jonior College for the supplement of dietician`s faculty.