Perceived Nursing Students’ Satisfaction and Self-Confidence towards the Elements of Clinical Simulation Design and Educational Practice during the Outbreak of COVID-19 Pandemic

Asmaa Mohamed,Lobna Mohame

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2020.131963

Asmaa Mohamed, Lobna Mohame

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https://doi.org/10.21608/tsnj.2020.131963

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Abstract

COVID–19 pandemic represents a challenge not only to frontline health professionals, whointroducing nursing services but also to nursing academics in nursing education. Clinicalsimulation is a valuable tool for teaching and learning in nursing education especially in thiscrisis. Aim: The study aimed to identify the perceived nursing students’ satisfaction and selfconfidencetowards the elements of clinical simulation design and educational practice duringthe outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A quantitative descriptive cross-sectionaldesign was utilized. The study was conducted at the nursing department, College of AppliedMedical Sciences affiliated to the University of Hafr Al-Batin. This study involved 118nursing students who were enrolled in different levels of academic years. The questionnaireinvolved three instruments; the Simulation Design Scale, Educational Practices Questionnaire,and Student Satisfaction / Self- Confidence in Learning Scale. Results: The findings revealedthat around half of nursing students had a low level of satisfaction with simulation activityand the highest percent of them had a high level of self-confidence for managing thesimulated situations. Conclusion & Recommendations: The study findings reflected that theuse of simulation in presence of design elements and educational practices' features is atypical solution for clinical nursing education to promote students' satisfaction and selfconfidencein learning. The study recommended incorporating virtual clinical simulation andother adaptive digital learning methods as a teaching strategy in nursing curricula, as well asencouragement the nursing colleges to allocate budget for purchasing equipment and highfidelity patient simulation manikins

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An outbreak of a novel coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged and quickly invaded all over the world to humans, creating a major threat to global health problems and the economy[1]
It was observed that 23.7% of students were in the internship academic year, 33.9% of them were in the seventh level, and 50% of them had a 3-
47.5% of students reported that the number of students in the clinical simulation was ranged in 15-20 group with a mean score of 17.90±7.38, and 54.2% of them had studied simulation courses in 5-

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An outbreak of a novel coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2) has emerged and quickly invaded all over the world to humans, creating a major threat to global health problems and the economy[1]. COVID-19 has already disrupted universities and academic institutions; especially nursing schools face unique challenges for developing the generation of care providers[3]. This pandemic obligated a halt in the access of nursing students to clinical training placements that caused trouble to complete the planning of the learning process for the nursing curriculum. Simulation has been used widely in the clinical training of health-care students and professionals It is a valuable strategy for teaching, learning, and evaluating clinical skills at different levels of nursing within a safe environment[4]. The principal aims of simulation as a teaching method are to improve the quality of care and ensure patients' safety[6]

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