Clinical trial NCT05643300: 21st Century Skills of Nursing Students
Official title: The Influence of 21st Century Skills on Clinical Decision-making in Nursing Students: a Cross-sectional Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Students
Nurse's Role
Keywords: Students, Nursing
Clinical Decision-Making
21st-century skills
Lead sponsor: Abant Izzet Baysal University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-12-08
Enrollment: 301
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population consists of junior and senior of the undergraduate nursing program. Students in lower grades do not have any clinical experience due to the curriculum of the program. Therefore, clinical decision-making is best measured by recruiting junior and senior students.

Brief summary: It was aimed to investigate the effect of Twenty first century (21st) century skills on the clinical decision making of nursing students. Within the scope of the cross sectional study, answers to the following research questions will be sought:

* What are the 21st century skill levels of nursing students?
* Are nursing students' 21st century skills affected by their sociodemographic characteristics?
* What are the clinical decision-making levels of nursing students?
* Are the clinical decision-making levels of nursing students affected by their sociodemographic characteristics?
* Do nursing students' 21st century skills affect their decision-making levels?

Detailed description: In this cross-sectional study, it is planned to investigate the effects of 21st century skills on clinical decision making of nursing students. Junior and senior students of a nursing undergraduate program in Turkey will be recruited. The universe of the research consists of junior (167 people) and senior (210 people) nursing students of a nursing undergraduate program in a university in Turkey in the 2022-2023 academic year. Sample selection will not be made and those who volunteer to participate will be included. According to the university's nursing program curriculum, first and second year students were excluded from the study because they did not have clinical practice experience. Data will be collected using an Information Form containing sociodemographic data, Multidimensional 21st Century Skills Scale and Nursing Decision Making Instrument. Data collection forms will be collected on the online platform in line with the link created through Google forms. The link address will be shared via students' smartphones. After explaining to the students that the purpose of the study before the application, the participation is on a voluntary basis and the confidentiality of the information obtained will be ensured, they will be asked to fill in the online questionnaire by entering the address in the link. Data collection time is planned to take approximately 10-15 minutes. The dependent variable of the study was clinical decision making; independent variables are 21st century skills and sociodemographic characteristics. In this direction, data analysis will be based on the comparison of dependent and independent variables. If the data is continuous, it will be displayed as percentile, mean, standard deviation; comparison will be made by correlation analysis. Discrete data will be compared with dependent variable according to data level by t test or analysis of variance. The effect of 21st century skills and sociodemographic characteristics of nursing students on clinical decision making will be tested with multivariate regression analysis enter method. For categorical variables, a dummy model will be created and converted into continuous data. Statistical significance value will be accepted as p\<0.05.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Nursing undergraduate program junior and senior students
* Volunteering to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* Nursing undergraduate program 1st and 2nd year students

Primary outcomes:
measure: 21st century skills (questionnaire)
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Clinical decision making (questionnaire)
timeFrame: Baseline
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bolu
country: Turkey
facility: Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences
Study officials:
affiliation: Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Faculty of Health Sciences
name: Şeyma Demir Erbaş, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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