Soft skills and implications for future professional practice: Qualitative findings of a nursing education escape room

Morrell, Briyana; Eukel, Heidi; Santurri, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104462

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“…Student perceptions were statistically significantly higher than the mean value for the evaluation scale ( p < 0.001). Qualitative and quantitative findings have been previously published (Morrell et al, 2020; Morrell & Eukel, 2020).…”

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“…For the qualitative sequence, two focus groups were conducted, using a semi-structured focus group guide. Data analysis revealed that students learned skills useful for future professional practice, including soft skills and working in a realistic environment (Morrell et al, 2020). They indicated growth in confidence, critical thinking, and teamwork (Morrell et al, 2020).…”

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Shocking Escape: A Cardiac Escape Room for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Morrell

Eukel

2020

Simulation & Gaming

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Background. Cardiovascular content is challenging for students to master in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Educational escape rooms have been shown to be useful in increasing student knowledge, immersing students in the learning process, and facilitating the growth of soft skills among learners. Aim. This article details a cardiovascular educational escape room in an undergraduate nursing course, including educational objectives, design considerations, and all materials for seamless transferability into other curricula. Methods. Faculty designed, implemented, evaluated, and revised a nursing cardiovascular escape room over three years. In this sequential-style escape room, junior-level students worked together in groups to complete nine puzzles and activities. The student teams solved puzzles during the allotted 60 minutes to save a fictional patient at risk for further clinical deterioration related to cardiogenic shock. Participants complete activities including drug dosage calculations, rebus puzzles, multiple choice items, and clinical reasoning activities based around course and licensing objectives for the content area in nursing education. Upon game conclusion, faculty lead a guided debriefing to close the loop of learning. The escape room has been implemented for groups ranging from 31 to 68 students in each cohort. Results. Previously published results on this topic indicate that student content knowledge improved after the event. Students also reflected growth in confidence, critical thinking, and teamwork and also appreciated the real-life nature of the activity. The educational game can be adapted and transferred to other schools of nursing or clinical sites.

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Shocking Escape: A Cardiac Escape Room for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Morrell

Eukel

2020

Simulation & Gaming

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“…Several studies about the application of the Escape Room in the classroom offer us very favorable results in terms of its application in different contexts [46][47][48]. Thus, its application improves all the indicators previously exposed in relation to gamification.…”

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“…As it has been seen in the previous section, the use of Escape Rooms in education fosters better results in students' motivation [48], activation and participation in their learning processes [49], and satisfaction for learning and attraction to it [50].…”

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Learning Mathematics with Emerging Methodologies—The Escape Room as a Case Study

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Nowadays, different methodologies are booming in the field of education, and active gamification-based methodologies such as the Escape Room are an example of these methodologies, which is the base of this research. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of the use of an Escape Room as an active methodology to learn mathematics. A quantitative research method was performed through an experimental design. Two study groups were set up. With the control group, a traditional training methodology was used, and with the experimental group, an innovative one was used through an Escape room experience. A total of 62 students of the 3rd level of Secondary Education from an educational center in Ceuta (Spain) participated. Results show how the experience developed through the escape room improved achievement, motivation and autonomy in a significant way. It has also reduced learning anxiety significantly. It is concluded that the use of the Escape room in Mathematics improves learning achievement, anxiety, motivation and autonomy, with gender being a variable to be taken into account, especially in motivation and autonomy. Therefore, the escape room has a greater potential than a traditional methodology in Mathematics.

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“…To date there are no outcome studies specific to the use of escape room assignments in nutrition and dietetics education. However, escape rooms have been used in other disciplines including nursing and pharmacy (e.g., Morrell, Eukel, & Santurri, 2020). In addition to improving student perceptions and knowledge development, educational escape rooms can also enhance soft skills such as teamwork and communication.…”

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Adapting a Classroom Simulation Experience to an Online Escape Room in Nutrition Education

Ross

Wright

Arikawa

2021

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Due to the COVID-19 emergency transition to remote learning, an undergraduate class in nutrition and dietetics modified a face-to-face experiential “escape room” assignment into a comparable online experience. The online assignment was structured so that students had to use knowledge and clues to move through each step of the Nutrition Care Process; students proceeded through the escape room individually until each successfully “escaped.” An important component of this assignment was the postactivity debriefing process, which took place via video conferencing in small groups. Students indicated that they were pleasantly surprised at the effectiveness of the online assignment. However, analytics showed that students progressed through most of the steps fairly quickly; thus, instructors plan to improve future deployments by using a variety of interactive assessments and adding more layered criteria and clues within each of the escape room steps.

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Soft skills and implications for future professional practice: Qualitative findings of a nursing education escape room

Cited by 61 publications

References 12 publications

Shocking Escape: A Cardiac Escape Room for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Shocking Escape: A Cardiac Escape Room for Undergraduate Nursing Students

Learning Mathematics with Emerging Methodologies—The Escape Room as a Case Study

Adapting a Classroom Simulation Experience to an Online Escape Room in Nutrition Education

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