Clinical judgment performance of undergraduate Nursing students

Improving Clinical Nursing Judgment in Prelicensure Students.

BACKGROUND Available models for designing the structure of specific simulation-based learning (SBL) activities need further analysis. METHOD This retrospective study was conducted using independent samples t tests to examine differences in mean clinical nursing judgment development scores between students who completed a nursing program prior to the introduction of an experiential learning th...

Pre-clinical preparation of undergraduate nursing students.

Effects on Nursing Students’ Clinical Judgment, Communication, and Skill Performance Following Debriefing using a Clinical Judgment Rubric

In this study, nursing students underwent simulation training with the aim of assessing the effects of post-simulation debriefing using a clinical judgment rubric to evaluate clinical judgment, communication, and skill performance. There were statistically significant differences between-group differences in participants’ clinical judgment and communication. However, no statistically significan...

Clinical judgment in reflective journals of prelicensure nursing students.

Clinical judgment is an essential skill needed by RNs. Employers expect new graduate nurses to enter the work-force with established clinical judgment skills. Therefore, nurse educators must ensure that prelicensure nursing students develop clinical judgment before graduation. This qualitative, interpretive description study reviewed the reflective journals of 30 prelicensure nursing students w...

Typology of undergraduate nursing students' unsafe clinical practices: Q-methodology.

Undergraduate nursing students, as members of the health care team, must uphold patient safety as a professional and moral obligation during their clinical learning experiences. To address this imperative, in a humanistic paradigm, students engage in critical appraisal of self as a developing practitioner. Using Q-methodology, this study describes undergraduate nursing students' subjective unde...