Abstract

Current research supports high-fidelity simulation use as a method for educating junior and senior nursing students. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship that existed between the use of evidence-based high-fidelity simulation and the novice baccalaureate nursing students' development of their nursing knowledge, performance skills, critical thinking skills, and self-confidence. A four-year university that offered a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing was the site of the study. This quasi-experimental quantitative study used a simple interrupted time-series, nonequivalent dependent variables, within-group design. Novice baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in their first theory and clinical course comprised the convenience sample. A pretest-posttest assessed their nursing knowledge; the National League of Nursing Questionnaires evaluated the students' perspective of critical thinking skills, performance skills, and self-confidence. The Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument evaluated the students' performance skills, critical thinking skills, and self-confidence from the faculty perspective. A paired t-test correlated the data results of the NLN Questionnaires and the Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument.

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Author Details

Barbara Connelley, PhD, MSN, BSN

Sigma Membership

Nu Pi at-Large

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Health and environmental sciences, Education, Critical thinking skills, High-fidelity simulation, Nursing education, Performance skills, Self-confidence

Advisor

Margaret Kroposki

Second Advisor

Ruth Grendell

Third Advisor

Nat Rasmussen

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

University of Phoenix

Degree Year

2015

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2016-12-22

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