Active Participants vs. Observers in Educational Simulations: Impact on Practical Skills Exam Results in Nursing Education: An Exploratory Design

IF 1.9 Q2 NURSING

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.teln.2025.01.003

Jill Flo, Elisabeth Solheim

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Abstract

Background

Second-year bachelor's students had a 2-day simulation session followed by a practical skills exam and oral questioning 2 weeks later.

Aim

To explore whether a student's role, as an active participant or an observer, had an impact on their results in the subsequent practical skills exam.

Methods

An exploratory design was used to compare the results of 248 students in a practical skills exam. 104 students participated as active participants in the preparatory simulation, while the remaining 144 students served as observers.

Results

No overall statistically significant difference was found between students who actively participated in a simulation and those who only observed in terms of passing or failing the practical skills exam. However, students who had taken the Methods and Interventions course before the Clinical Practice course, active participants in the simulation had a significantly higher pass rate (p < 0.05) than observers.

Conclusions

Overall, being an active participant or a directed observer in the preparatory simulation appears to have the same value for the practical skills exam pass rate.

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Teaching and Learning in Nursing NURSING-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

10.50%

发文量

119

审稿时长

37 days

期刊介绍： Teaching and Learning in Nursing is the Official Journal of the National Organization of Associate Degree Nursing. The journal is dedicated to the advancement of Associate Degree Nursing education and practice, and promotes collaboration in charting the future of health care education and delivery. Topics include: - Managing Different Learning Styles - New Faculty Mentoring - Legal Issues - Research - Legislative Issues - Instructional Design Strategies - Leadership, Management Roles - Unique Funding for Programs and Faculty