The Effect of Digital Game on Assessing Nursing Students' Blood Pressure Measurement Skills

In recent years, in order for students to develop their skills related to the nursing profession, to cope with new and unpredictable clinical situations and to increase efficiency in nursing education, application contents such as simulation, video and mobile applications, in which students are active one-to-one and should take responsibility, rather than laboratory applications in which instructors are active, are developed to provide students with the opportunity to perform clinical nursing practices. Mobile applications, which are becoming increasingly popular in health education programmes and are also called e-health applications, are widely used and it is stated that they positively affect students' motivation and increase academic success. Although the use of games in nursing education dates back to the 1980s, the use of digital games in education is not very old, but it is an increasingly used teaching method in nursing practices that continue to develop. In addition, it is very important to use innovative learning strategies for new nurse candidates who are called Generation Z and who will soon become nursing professionals. Because, Generation Z is a generation born into the technology environment and actively uses this technology.

For this reason, in order to train nurses who are suitable and predisposed to the advancing technology, the nursing curriculum will ensure the support of the classroom and clinical environment, which will positively affect the quality and safety of patient care, and the organisation of a forward-looking, innovative and technology-oriented teaching curriculum will ensure the development of an easy and useful teaching method in teaching nursing practices.

Method: This study will be conducted in the form of an experimental design for first year nursing students in the period of February-March 2023.

When the literature is examined, this study is a study that we want to pioneer a system that will contribute to the creation of an education curriculum that will help students who are generation Z and who will be the next professional nurses to learn more easily and effectively by using methods such as digital games before going to the clinical field by integrating the advancing technology and nursing practices into technology. Although the use of technology is currently used less or not at all in the education of individuals carrying out the nursing profession in clinics, the easier adaptation and use of new generation students to technology facilitates its use in nursing education. Therefore, the study was planned in the form of a digital game that students can adopt and apply more easily and quickly and at the same time to prevent errors in blood pressure application. As a result of this study, in addition to the teaching techniques in the nursing curriculum, a new curriculum that is more innovative and suitable for advancing technology will be adopted and will make a significant contribution to the implementation of nursing practices.

Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:

* Who agreed to participate in the research,
* Smartphone user,
* First year nursing student.
* Taking the Nursing Principles Course for the first time.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Graduated from health vocational high school,
* Previous knowledge of blood pressure measurement skills,
* Vertical transfer student,
* Wishing to leave the study at any stage of the study.