Background: A report of the effects of global warming on health, physically and mentally, has estimated around one million fifty thousand deaths every year due to global warming. Sick people need health providers to understand and successfuly treat their medical problems, and accompany them through their illness and many non-preferable procedures. Listening to patient is considered an important task for nurses whom being thrown to accompany with sick people.

Objective: the objective of this study was to descrbe the listening experience of patient's illness narrative among undergraduate nursing students at Burapha University.

Design: Interpretive phenomenology was used to guide data collection and analysis. Semi-structure questions were utilized for in-depth interview. Eleven third year nursing students, Burapha university, were purposively recruited to participate in this study and interviewed. The in-depth interviews were transcribed verbatim for analysis.

results: The fidings represent a circle of understanding how the participants situated self in the studied phenomenon. the emergence of the previous 3 themes presents back and forth of pre-understanding and new understanding that pave the path to practical understanding of knowing a patient as a whole person being-in-the-world, or as appealed in the fourth theme. Four themes were 1) Exposing self to patients' unheard stories, 2) Getting in patients' world with pleasure, 3) Acknowledging the significance of meaningful relationship between a patient and loved once, and 4) On a path to know more about patients.

Conclusions: In the mid of global warming cimate where people have a higher risk to get sick accompany with health care system that is system that is systemically organized in a fragmenting fashion, listening to patients is very important for nurses to mobilize capacity inherently in people and for people to heal and become independent.

Keywords: Interpretive phenomenology, Listening experience, Undergraduate nursig sudens.