Effectiveness of a simulation integrated with problem based learning (SIM-PBL) for undergraduate nursing students; A module of nursing care for children with asthma

초록

Few nursing students in children’s health clinical practicum are trained for nursing care in mergency conditions such as children with exacerbated asthma. Smmary of work: A two-group nonequivalent quasiexperimental study was taken to evaluate the effectiveness of a simulation integrated with problem based learning (SIMPBL) module of children with asthma on self-efficacy (SE), knowledge and clinical performance of undergraduate nursing students. Nine students of the intervention group received a 3-hour SIM-PBL training and same number of students in the control group received regular clinical practicum of children’s health nursing. Summary of results: After the SIM-PBL and the regular practicum, the improvements of the intervention group were all higher than the control group both in knowledge (7.7±1.0 vs -0.4±1.5; t=2.54, p=.019 ) and SE (63.7±32.9 vs 9.2±24.3; t=2.76, p=.012). OSCE was also applied to evaluate clinical performance for both groups and the mean scores of OSCE were higher in the intervention group (24.2 ±3.0 vs 20.4±2.1; t=3.09, p=.007). Conclusions: The SIM-PBL program improved nursing students’ clinical performance, SE and knowledge in nursing care for children with asthma. Take-home messages: It would be valuable to develop the SIM-PBL modules with various nursing topics. This study was supported by Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (2011-0009627).