The Effect of Case-Based Education on the Development of Nursing Students' Clinical Reasoning Skills

Ankara University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness; Clinical Reasoning

Treatments: Other: Case-based education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05504824

AU-OBIRGE-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the effect of case-based education on the development of clinical reasoning skills of nursing students in critical illnesses.

Methods: The study was conducted between January 20 and June 30, 2021 using a pilot randomized controlled trial design. In the study, 22 volunteer students were assigned to the experimental and control groups by simple randomization. The experimental group was given case-based education to improve their clinical reasoning skills, and the control group continued the standard education process. Data were collected using a Student Information Form, the Clinical Reasoning Case Form (CRCF), the Student Satisfaction with Education Questionnaire, and a Form for Views on the Education. In the evaluation of data, frequency values, Fisher exact test, Mann-Whitney U, and Wilcoxon tests, Cohen's d coefficient for effect size, ITT analysis, and covariance analysis were used.

Full description

Aim of the study This study was conducted to determine the effect of case-based education on the development of nursing students' clinical reasoning skills in critical illnesses.

Research hypotheses H01: There is no difference between the experimental group and the control group in terms of their CRCF scores.

H02: Case-based education on clinical reasoning has no positive effect on student satisfaction.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having completed the "Medical Nursing" and Surgical Nursing" courses,
• Volunteering to participate in the study,
• Participate in "Case-Based Education"

Exclusion criteria

• Not being willing to participate in the study,
• Abandoning the "Case-Based Education" practice
• Not taking one or two of the "Medical Nursing" and "Surgical Nursing" courses at all, or to have taken them but unsuccessfully

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Students in both experimental groups were applied the student information form and the pretest of the CRCF between May 18 and 20, 2021 before the education. The schedule of the education intervention was determined according to the convenience of the students in the experimental group. Accordingly, the experimental group was given education between June 8 and 11, 2021. After the education sessions were completed, experimental groups were applied the CRCF as a posttest on June 28, 2021. The students in the experimental group were asked to fill out the "Student Satisfaction with Education Questionnaire" and the "Form for Views on the Education" online.

Treatment:

Other: Case-based education

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Students in control groups were applied the student information form and the pretest of the CRCF between May 18 and 20, 2021 before the education. The students in the control group continued their current standard education process. After the education sessions were completed, control groups were applied the CRCF as a posttest on June 28, 2021.