Abstract
Objectives The purpose of this study was to verify the adaptation of college life, nursing professionalism and career identity in nursing students on alternative clinical practicum.
 Methods The subjects of this study were 257 nursing students in fourth grades located in J province, and data were collected using self-administered questionnaires. To analyse the data, Cronbach's α, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, Scheffe test were used with an SPSS 20.0 program.
 Results Mean score of subjects was 3.49 adaptation of college life score, 3.56 nursing professionalism score and 2.38 career identity score. Adaptation of college life showed a significant difference in satisfaction with nursing as a major. Nursing professionalism showed a significant difference in application motivation and satisfaction with nursing as a major. Career identity showed a significant difference in application motivation, school life and satisfaction with nursing as a major. Adaptation of college life, nursing professionalism and career identity had significant positive correlations.
 Conclusions As a result of this study, the adaptation of college life, nursing professionalism, and career identity of the subjects who underwent alternative clinical practicum were rather low. Also, the better students adapt to college life, the higher their nursing professionalism and sense of career identity will be so it is expected that this study will be used as a basis for establishing measures to improve nursing students' college life adaptation and to enhance nursing professionalism and career identity.
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