Effects of Debriefing Applying the Clinical Judgment Rubric on Nursing Students’ Knowledge, Skill Performance and Simulation Effectiveness

Abstract

In this study, nursing students underwent simulation training with the aim of assessing the effects of post-simulation debriefing using a clinical judgment rubric on simulation effectiveness, students' knowledge, and skill performance. Eighty-one nursing students enrolled in an integrated simulation course were divided into experimental and control groups through random sampling and were assigned into classes accordingly. The experimental group was debriefed using the clinical judgment rubric, the control group using typical methods. There was a statistically significant difference between groups in terms of their knowledge (F = 4.27, p = 0.042) and in terms of skill performance; the experimental group showed a higher increase in skill performance score after simulation training (F = 5.88, p = 0.017). There was a statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of simulation effectiveness with the simulation being more effective in the experimental group (F = 22.66, p < .001).