Psychological Safety in Nursing Simulation
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Published on: January 15, 2017
Sook Jung Kang1, Hae Young Min
1Author affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Kang), College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University, Seoul; and Assistant Professor (Dr Min), College of Nursing and Healthcare Sciences, Dong-Eui University, Busan, Korea.
Background:
Although nursing students enjoy and learn from simulation practice, some experience negative feelings that may hamper their learning outcomes.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to understand nursing students' perceptions of psychological safety in simulation practice to provide a foundation for a safe and effective simulation learning environment.
Methods:
A convenient sample of 15 undergraduate nursing students was included in this study. Focus group interviews and inductive content analysis were used for this study.
Results:
Four themes extracted from the study included feeling unready, anxious about having students' mistakes exposed, worry about damaging teamwork, and fear of evaluation.
Conclusions:
Findings indicated that providing prebriefing and considering students' level of simulation experience in sharing their recorded video may help ensure a psychologically safe environment. An instrument measuring psychological safety and evidence-based guidelines to ensure a safe learning environment needs to be developed.
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