The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that students themselves feel "growth" and "could not grow" in nursing clinical practice, by dividing them into their own factors and surrounding factors. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 113 third and fourth grade students studying nursing, and analysis was performed using content analysis. As a result, the following four categories were extracted in common with "self and surrounding factors leading to awareness of growth" and "self and surrounding factors leading to awareness of failure to grow", That is, [self-learning], [nursing practice], [self-reflection], and [environment] categories. Performing [self-learning] and acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary for nursing gave confidence to the appropriate support for the subject and led to awareness of growth. [Nursing practice] was an opportunity to experience the growth of the students themselves. On the other hand, when the students experienced that it was difficult to modify or devise the nursing process according to the condition of the subject, it led to the awareness that they could not grow. [Self-reflection] led to the students becoming aware of their own problems by looking back on their own nature and behavior during the clinical training period. In [Environment], it was shown that the feeling that the practical experience was accumulated in the students themselves led to awareness of growth.
