ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the real feeling and experience of the nurses when they changed their role into patients (in hospital), and find out the defect and disadvantage of nursing service, then we can identify the direction of how to improve our nursing service. Methods Six nurses who were hospital-ized for operations were interviewed about the feeling of being patients, before and after operations.The in-formation was collected and analyzed, then questions were raised up. Results The various feelings of 6 nurses before and after operation were got and 6 themes were summarized. Conclusions When the nurs-es have experienced the feeling of being patients, they understand the patients better, they consider that more thinking from another way could help to form good relationship between nurse and patient,"more un-derstand, more trust, less complain, less grumble".