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Effectiveness of simulation in nursing students' critical thinking scores : A pre-/post-test study
Saghafi, Farida Blakey, Nicole Guinea, Stephen Levett-Jones, Tracey
Saghafi, Farida
Blakey, Nicole
Guinea, Stephen
Levett-Jones, Tracey
Abstract
Background
This study investigated how final-year undergraduate nursing students’ critical thinking skills were impacted after attending a purposefully designed 15 hour program with nine hours of simulation-based learning activities aligned with a theoretical framework of clinical reasoning comprising the Clinical Reasoning Cycle and Debriefing for Meaningful Learning.
Method
A one-group pre-test post-test design was used. Fifty-six final semester undergraduate nursing students from five campuses of one Australian university participated in this study. Data were collected before and after the simulation program using the Health Sciences Reasoning Test.
Results
Analysis of data using paired sample t-tests demonstrated a positive change in critical thinking scores after completing the program (95% confidence interval 0.206-2.079). A total of 62.5% of participants achieved two scores higher after completing the simulation program.
Conclusions
Implementing a simulation program designed according to the Clinical Reasoning Cycle and using the Debriefing for Meaningful Learning model is associated with enhancing the critical thinking skills of nursing students.
Keywords
simulation, critical thinking, clinical reasoning, nursing education, nursing students
Date
2024
Type
Journal article
Journal
Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Book
Volume
89
Issue
Page Range
1-8
Article Number
Article 101500
ACU Department
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Relation URI
Source URL
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
© 2023 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)