Abstract

Faculty play a considerable role in positively impacting the development of a novice nursing student's self-confidence through contemporary, innovative, and meaningful teaching practices that are data-driven. Employing effective confidence-building teaching strategies early in the curriculum supports the development of confidence as a professional attribute and is critical to student success, patient safety, and patient comfort (Blum et al., 2010; Bulfone et al., 2016; Lundberg, 2008; White, 2009). This prospective, cross-sectional, quantitative, comparison pilot study compared the effectiveness of a role-play (RP) physical assessment simulation with a new teaching strategy, an individual high-fidelity physical assessment simulation (HFS), to determine the impact on beginning associate degree nursing students' self-confidence. Grundy's (1993) Confidence Scale was utilized to measure student perceived levels of self-confidence prior to the simulation and one week later prior to engaging in their first patient care experience.

Author Details

Ashley N. Carter, DNP, RN, CNE

Sigma Membership

Omicron Psi

Type

DNP Capstone Project

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Quasi-Experimental Study, Other

Research Approach

Pilot/Exploratory Study

Keywords:

Beginning Nursing Student, Confidence Level, Role-play

Advisor

Sandra Cleveland

Degree

DNP

Degree Grantor

American Sentinel University

Degree Year

2019

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2020-05-28

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