Teach less and Practice more: Flipped Learning for Nursing Education

Abstract

It is essential that students and teachers work together to acquire even the most basic nursing care skills to the full extent of the Nursing Process. The nursing procedure is not something that can be learnt in a single day by any student. There were various difficulties for both learners and mentors during the COVID-19 outbreak when e-learning was used as a mode of instruction. This project was designed to efficiently address learning needs during a pandemic. In this study, baccalaureate nursing students were taught the nursing process using a flipped classroom methodology with the goal of developing knowledge and skill in the nursing process.To teach the nursing process during the covid-19 pandemic; A Flipped learning program was planned with 4 online modules to teach the nursing process. To see the effectiveness one group posttest only design was adopted for 36 students selected by consecutive sampling. The whole program was planned with an integrated pedagogy in pre-classroom, during the classroom, and post-classroom activities to attain the objective of comprehensive knowledge & skills acquisition for delivering the nursing process. Teaching for theory was done virtually with prerecorded Video-lecture, PowerPoint Presentation, Pdf. asynchronous & synchronous discussion and demonstration of procedures were done face to face in the skill lab. The final assessment was performed by a self-structured knowledge questionnaire and a practicum exa mination through OSCE in the laboratory.The result shows that students scored mean knowledge of 15.2 out of 20 with a standard deviation of 2.6 and a practice score of 9.42 out of 12 with a standard deviation of 3.1.If the pedagogy is engaging, from simple to complex, and the whole process is accompanied by self-learning material on computers, the nursing process can be made easier. Students' critical thinking and synthesizing abilities have been boosted by classroom activities. This course has provided students with the opportunity to self-learning with computers so that they can use that knowledge to improve nursing services in the future.