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Evaluating undergraduate nursing students' learning using standardized patients.

Judy A K Bornais¹, Janet E Raiger, Ryan E Krahn

¹University of Windsor, Faculty of Nursing Windsor, Ontario. jbornais@uwindsor.ca

Journal of Professional Nursing : Official Journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing

|September 26, 2012

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Standardized patients effectively improve health assessment skills in first-year nursing students, enhancing clinical examination scores but not theory knowledge. This educational technique shows promise for nursing education.

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Area of Science:

Nursing Education
Medical Simulation
Health Assessment Training

Background:

Standardized patients (SPs) are established in medical education but novel in nursing.
The benefits of SPs for undergraduate nursing education require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of standardized patients in enhancing health assessment skills.
Focus on first-year undergraduate nursing students.

Main Methods:

Comparative design study.
Convenience sample of 108 first-year nursing students.
Recruitment from a collaborative nursing program in southwestern Ontario.

Main Results:

Intervention group showed significantly higher objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scores (M = 78.57) compared to the control group (M = 69.28) (P ≤ .001).
No significant difference in theory scores between the intervention (M = 77.23) and control (M = 77.29) groups (P = .963).

Conclusions:

Standardized patients are an effective educational tool for undergraduate nursing.
SPs enhance practical health assessment skills crucial for nursing practice.