Clinical trial NCT05290909: The Effectiveness of Blended and Problem-based Learning to Improve the Competence of Geriatric Nursing Students
Official title: The Effectiveness of Blended and Problem-based Learning to Improve the Geriatric Nursing of Critical Thinking and Ethical Competence Among Nursing Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Narrative Ethics
Keywords: Nursing students
blended model
problem-based learning
critical thinking
ethical competence
Lead sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-03-22
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Medical ecology is a highly uncertain and high-pressure environment. Nurses must use their thinking to make critical judgments and decisions in a short time. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, many universities have produced a lot of innovative inf teaching styles. With the reduction of budget and the evaluation of teaching quality, the blended learning model is gradually being valued by educators.

The aims of this study are to establish a teaching model that applies blended learning and problem-oriented teaching, and to explore the association and effectiveness of critical thinking and ethical competence of research subjects after this intervention in which shortens the gap in learning and practicing for increasing clinical nursing capabilities.

Detailed description: Medical ecology is a highly uncertain and high-pressure environment. Nurses must use their thinking to make critical judgments and decisions in a short time. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, many universities have produced a lot of innovative inf teaching styles. With the reduction of budget and the evaluation of teaching quality, the blended learning model is gradually being valued by educators.

The aims of this study are to establish a teaching model that applies blended learning and problem-oriented teaching, and to explore the association and effectiveness of critical thinking and ethical competence of research subjects after this intervention in which shortens the gap in learning and practicing for increasing clinical nursing capabilities.

After the implementation of this protocol, the participants would increase the critical thinking and ethical competence of nursing students in geriatric nursing. Also, the teacher can self-review the teaching effect and analyze the actual situation of the students in the construction of ethical competency as a teaching reference to improve or revise teaching strategies.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* The research object of this project will be the students in the nursing class of a university (third year students), and the students who have taken 2 credits each of " Profession and Ethics"in two working class.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Students that have selected " Profession and Ethics" but do not wish to participate in this study

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory(CTDI-CV)
timeFrame: Baseline (T0)
measure: Moral distress scale
timeFrame: Baseline (T0)
measure: Nurses' Moral Courage Scale，NMCS
timeFrame: Baseline (T0)
measure: The Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory(CTDI-CV)
timeFrame: eighteen weeks after intervention(T1)
measure: Moral distress scale
timeFrame: eighteen weeks after intervention(T1)
measure: Nurses' Moral Courage Scale，NMCS
timeFrame: eighteen weeks after intervention(T1)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Taipei
country: Taiwan
facility: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences
state: Taipei City
Study officials:
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