Introduction: Clinical practice is one of the learning process should be done by nursing student in order to finish their study. Most of nursing student having heavy and medium anxiety during the process of learning practice experience. Anxiety is caused by their lack of knowledge about clinical practice. Peer Group Discussion (PGD) is expected to decrease anxiety of the nursing student during learning practice so they can be professional nurse in the future. Method: This research was a quasy experiment with Pre-Post Test Non Randomized Control Group design. It has 72 nursing student as population with one control group and treatment group using simple random sampling and got 46 respondents.The independent variable was PGD and the dependent variable was level of anxiety in learning practice experience of nursing student in Airlangga University nursing school. Data collection was done by using CARS questionnaire (Covi Anxiety Rating Scale) to measure the level of anxiety. The analysis was done using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with significant score p = 0.05 and Man Whitney Test with significant level p = 0.05. Result: The result showed significant effect between PGD and level of anxiety of the learning practice experience student (p=0.000). Discussion: In conclusion, PGD have an effect on the level of anxiety on learning practice experience nursing student because there was perception’s changes from maladaptive became adaptive. It is expected for future research to make another method such us tutorial or mentoring to decrease anxiety of the nursing students.
Keywords : anxiety, peer group discussion, clinical practice experience nursing studen
