School of Nursing & Midwifery, Western Sydney University Hawkesbury Campus, Richmond, NSW, Australia.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2025 Jan;144:106422. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106422. Epub 2024 Sep 22.
Numeracy and mathematics are terms that can cause anxiety, not only in students, but this emotion can also be experienced in teachers. Anxiety can inhibit teacher performance and is correlated with low self-confidence. The anxiety felt by school teachers when teaching mathematics is widely reported, however, the self-reported confidence and anxiety levels of nurse academics when teaching numeracy concepts to undergraduate nursing students has never been studied.
To explore and analyse Australian nurse academics' self-reported confidence and anxiety levels when teaching nursing numeracy to undergraduate nursing students.
Cross-sectional survey.
Australian universities that provide an undergraduate nursing degree leading to nursing registration.
Australian nurse academics employed either permanent full time or part time; casual /sessional; or on a fixed term contract, who teach nursing numeracy and medication calculations to undergraduate nursing students.
A combination of convenience and purposive sampling was used to recruit Australian nurse academics (n = 170). Data were collected between Nov 2023 and Feb 2024 using an online survey platform.
Almost 50 % of participants self-reported feeling either not confident or somewhat confident and very or somewhat anxious when teaching nursing numeracy. There were no significant differences in overall confidence and anxiety based on demographic variables, indicating this is a widespread issue. A non-significant trend towards level A academics experiencing higher anxiety and less confidence was noted.
A significant proportion of students are being taught nursing numeracy by nurse academics who lack confidence and experience anxiety, which can be transferred to students, affecting learning and performance. The downstream consequences are potentially poor numeracy skills in students and compromised patient safety. Strategies that have been effective in reducing school teachers' anxiety could be used to support nurse academics.
计算能力和数学是两个容易引起焦虑的术语，不仅学生如此，教师也会感到焦虑。焦虑会抑制教师的表现，并与低自信相关。学校教师在教授数学时感到焦虑的情况屡见不鲜，然而，从未有研究探讨过护理学术人员在向本科护理学生教授计算概念时的自我报告信心和焦虑水平。
探索和分析澳大利亚护理学术人员在向本科护理学生教授护理计算时的自我报告信心和焦虑水平。
横断面调查。
提供本科护理学位并可注册为护士的澳大利亚大学。
受雇于澳大利亚的护理学术人员，包括全职或兼职、临时/兼职或固定期限合同，教授护理计算和药物计算的护理学术人员。
采用便利抽样和目的抽样相结合的方法招募澳大利亚护理学术人员（n=170）。数据收集于 2023 年 11 月至 2024 年 2 月期间，使用在线调查平台进行。
近 50%的参与者表示在教授护理计算时，自我感觉缺乏信心或有些信心，并且感到非常或有些焦虑。根据人口统计学变量，整体信心和焦虑没有显著差异，表明这是一个普遍存在的问题。注意到，A级学术人员的焦虑感较高且信心较低，这一趋势虽然不显著，但值得关注。
相当一部分学生由缺乏信心且感到焦虑的护理学术人员教授护理计算，这可能会传递给学生，影响学习和表现。其潜在后果是学生的计算能力较差，患者安全受到威胁。已经证实能够降低学校教师焦虑感的策略可以用于支持护理学术人员。
