Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Department of Adult Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Nurse Educ Today. 2020 Mar;86:104323. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.104323. Epub 2019 Dec 28.
Nursing education has to promote nursing students' critical thinking skills especially those who are going to work with people with dementia suffering from pain. Therefore, nursing education needs to incorporate new and effective teaching methods in nursing curricula for critical thinking skills promotion. Branching path simulation is an interactive learning tool which helps students; (1) to make decisions about treatment options for patients and get feedback immediately and (2) to demonstrate and promote their critical thinking skills in a safe and supported environment before dealing with complex and real-life case scenarios.
The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of branching path simulation in promoting the critical thinking skills of undergraduate nursing students.
This an equivalent control group pretest-posttest experimental study was done in 2019 on 102 undergraduate nursing students who had registered in both practical and theoretical courses of Advanced Adult Health Nursing. A pretest posttest experimental design with concurrent control group and random assignment to the treatment/nontreatment variable was used and a convenience sample of 102 nursing students was recruited in this study. The students were randomly assigned and divided into two equal intervention and control groups and each group attended different training sessions. The control group was trained by traditional lectures while the intervention group was trained by branching path simulation. The researcher used a demographic questionnaire and the Critical Thinking Self-Assessment Scale (CTSAS) for data collection.
After the training sessions, the mean scores of the CTSAS and its subscales domain in the intervention group were significantly higher than the control group.
Branching path simulation is an effective teaching method to promote students' critical thinking skills. Future studies are recommended to examine the effect of branching path simulation on other nursing students learning outcomes.
护理教育必须培养护理学生的批判性思维能力，尤其是那些将要与患有疼痛的痴呆症患者打交道的学生。因此，护理教育需要在护理课程中纳入新的、有效的教学方法，以促进批判性思维能力的提高。分支路径模拟是一种互动式学习工具，它可以帮助学生：（1）为患者做出治疗选择，并立即获得反馈；（2）在处理复杂的现实生活情况之前，在安全和支持的环境中展示和促进他们的批判性思维能力。
本研究旨在检验分支路径模拟在提高本科护理学生批判性思维能力方面的有效性。
这是一项 2019 年进行的等效对照前后测实验研究，对象为注册了高级成人健康护理实践和理论课程的 102 名本科护理学生。采用前后测实验设计，同时设有对照组，并对治疗/非治疗变量进行随机分组，便利选取了 102 名护理学生参与本研究。学生被随机分配到两组，即干预组和对照组，两组分别接受不同的培训。对照组接受传统讲座培训，而干预组接受分支路径模拟培训。研究者使用人口统计学问卷和批判性思维自我评估量表（CTSAS）收集数据。
培训课程结束后，干预组的 CTSAS 及其各分量表域的平均分显著高于对照组。
分支路径模拟是一种有效的教学方法，可以提高学生的批判性思维能力。建议未来的研究检验分支路径模拟对其他护理学生学习成果的影响。
