Evaluation of Nursing Student Practice for the Use of Nursing Process in Adult Nursing: Analysis of Learning Achievement Self-Evaluation and a Class Evaluation Questionnaire
In order to define appropriate teaching methods for the use of nursing process in Adult Nursing, a survey was conducted involving 91 third-year students on nursing courses at A university, using self-evaluation forms regarding nursing process and a class evaluation questionnaire, to examine students'achievement patterns and class evaluation. An analysis of survey responses from 84 students, 81 of whom also responded to the questionnaire, revealed that the levels of achievement of the description of sequence of events, interpretation of information, differentiation between nursing and collaborative problems, and between existing and potential problems were low; and those of the organization and classification of the data collected before and after the practice were high. In comparison between before and after the practice, data analyzed by using paired t-test, the levels of learning achievement after the practice were significantly higher in 18 of 21 items, particularly higher in 9 items including the description of sequence of events, the pathological understanding and differentiation between nursing and collaborative problems. The class evaluation questionnaire demonstrated the effectiveness of both individual and group learning methods, optional learned cases, and the use of self-evaluation forms. These results suggest that a teaching method focusing on the description of sequence of events, in which students tend to have difficulty, may be particularly effective to enhance students' ability to use nursing process in practice.