Improvement of nursing students' learning outcomes through scenario-based skills training

Abstract

Objective: this study analyzed the influence of scenario-based skills training on students' learning skills.Method: the author evaluated the nursing skills laboratory exam papers of 605 sophomores in nursing programs for seven years. The study determined the common mistakes of students and the laboratory work was designed in a scenario-based format. The effectiveness of this method was evaluated by assessing the number of errors the students committed and their achievement scores in laboratory examinations. This study presents the students' common mistakes in intramuscular and subcutaneous injection and their development of intravenous access skills, included in the nursing skills laboratory examination.Results: an analysis of the students' most common mistakes revealed that the most common was not following the principles of asepsis for all three skills (intramuscular, subcutaneous injection, intravenous access) in the first year of the scenario-based training. The students' exam achievement scores increased gradually, except in the fall semester of the academic year 2009-2010. The study found that the scenario-based skills training reduced students' common mistakes in examinations and enhanced their performance on exams.Conclusion:this method received a positive response from both students and instructors. The scenario-based training is available for use in addition to other skills training methods.

Adopting Scenario Based Learning in Critical Care Nursing Education: Students’ Achievement and Feedback

“…Moreover, our findings concur with other investigators who revealed higher performance and information in intervention participants than control participants [18,28,32,[38][39][40]. Other studies documented significant improvement in students' achievement regarding clinical and critical thinking, decision making skills and self-confidence after SBL application [16,24,[41][42][43][44].…”

“…Two tools were used to collect data for the present study which was developed by the researcher based up on relevant literature. Tool one "Students' Achievement Sheet" [13,18,[24][25][26][27][28][29]35] that involved eight main domains. The first domain comprised 4 statements about analyzing the scenario.…”

“…Moreover, other studies assured that enrolled student feedback to SBL was very positive with high learning experience enjoyment and they concluded that students perceived SBL as a valuable learning experience [14,60,61]. Likewise, Uysal [28], added that the students' positive feedback can be a map for developing and enhancing nursing curriculum each semester.…”

“…Nursing education stakeholders are facing huge challenges to introduce high quality nursing programs that attributing graduate nurses who are able to competing in the job marketing [15,27,28]. Nursing education in Egypt has various programs [29].…”

Improving nursing students' learning outcomes in fundamentals of nursing course through combination of traditional and e-learning methods

“…[ 1 ] In this course, one of the most important learning needs is training of psychomotor skills that is done in the field of clinical skills lab. [ 2 ] Meanwhile, the students, especially in primary semesters, are in primary level of psychomotor skills. Hence, considerable time is allocated for attending the skills lab in this course.…”