Development and implementation of a student-led, project-based, community health nursing clinical placement focused on health promotion for nursing students in Korea

Purpose: This study aimed to develop and implement a community health nursing clinical placement focused on a health promotion project for nursing students in Korea. Methods: This quantitative descriptive study developed and implemented a community health nursing clinical placement curriculum based on a health promotion project. Results: In this study, Jalinus et al's seven steps for project-based learning were applied: formulation of expected learning outcomes through community health promotion projects, understanding the concept of teaching materials, skill training, designing the community health promotion project theme, developing the community health promotion project proposal, executing the community health promotion project, and presenting the community health promotion project outcomes. Nursing students demonstrated positive satisfaction scores with the clinical placement. Conclusions: The community health nursing clinical placement focused on a health promotion project demonstrated a high level of student satisfaction. The nursing students actively engaged in the clinical placement and expressed strong satisfaction with the acquisition of new knowledge and the development of competencies to assess community health issues. Locally co-designed clinical placements that reflect regional characteristics may contribute to improved student satisfaction, and there is a need to include student participation in the future design of learner-driven, problem-solving-oriented curriculum.