Abstract

While nurse educators believe their graduates are prepared for practice, experienced nurses view new graduates as inadequately prepared and needing improvement in basic psychomotor and clinical reasoning skills. This study focused on the fundamental nursing skills course, where students learn the foundational skills that are seen as lacking in the new graduates. The purpose of this nonexperimental quantitative correlational study was to examine whether student perceptions of the lab instructor's use of the Principles of Instruction (Authentic Problems, Activation, Demonstration, Application, and Integration) predicted the students' learning progress and mastery of the course objectives in the fundamental nursing skills course. A secondary purpose was to explore the difference between student and instructor ratings for student level of mastery.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 3735896; ProQuest document ID: 1746623257. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Jill F. Daly, EdD, MSN, BSN

Sigma Membership

Gamma Nu

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Nurse Educators, Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Student Level of Mastery, Skills Aquisition

Advisor

Kristin O'Byrne

Second Advisor

Mark Kelso

Degree

Doctoral-Other

Degree Grantor

Northcentral University

Degree Year

2015

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-11-01

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