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Teaching Prelicensure Nursing Students Reasoning in Clinical Experiences: A Pilot Study
The Journal of Nursing Education
|August 10, 2023
Summary
The PREP framework significantly improved clinical reasoning skills in prelicensure nursing students. This novel approach enhances essential skills for modern patient care.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Education
- Clinical Reasoning
- Healthcare Pedagogy
Background:
- Clinical experiences are crucial for prelicensure nursing students.
- Modern nursing requires advanced reasoning skills due to an aging population.
- Standardized methods for clinical education are lacking in current literature.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the effectiveness of the PREP framework in enhancing clinical reasoning among nursing students.
- To assess changes in clinical reasoning ability before and after clinical rotations.
Main Methods:
- A pilot study utilized the Health Sciences Reasoning Test (HSRT) to measure clinical reasoning.
- Nursing students completed the HSRT as pre- and posttests.
- Scores were analyzed across intervention and control groups, and by student level.
Main Results:
- The intervention group demonstrated a significant improvement in HSRT scores post-intervention.
- This indicates enhanced clinical reasoning ability in students exposed to the PREP framework.
Conclusions:
- The PREP framework represents a novel and effective approach to clinical nursing education.
- This method successfully improved the clinical reasoning skills of prelicensure nursing students.
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