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Transforming Nursing Knowledge, Education, and Practice Through Pre-Briefing and Debriefing [Symposium]
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to describe a newly developed model-based, structured prebriefing intervention and its effect on nursing students’ competency performance, clinical judgment, and their perceived prebriefing experience, and to describe its application to teaching practice. Prebriefing begins the simulation process and introduces the participants to the simulation, learning experience (Chamberlain, 2015; Rudolph, Raemer, & Simon, 2014). However, little nursing education research is available on this activity, and how it relates to the development of nursing knowledge and practice. Reflection theory and concept mapping underpinned the development of a model on which this intervention was based, to prepare students for meaningful simulation learning (Decker et al., 2010; author, 2014).
Methods:  An experimental group-randomized design was used to compare the intervention group, which received structured prebriefing and the control group, which received customary orientation activities. This study was conducted at a university school of nursing in Canada. Baccalaureate nursing students (N = 76) in a traditional four-year program, who were enrolled in a fourth-year medical-surgical course, participated. Competency performance, clinical judgment, and the perceptions of the prebriefing experiences in each group were examined, in addition to the relationship between simulation performance and students' self-rated prebriefing experience. Scores from the Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument and the Prebriefing Experience Scale were analyzed using parametric and non-parametric statistics.
Results: A statistically signiï¬cant difference was demonstrated between groups for competency performance (p < 0.001), clinical judgment (p < 0.001) and prebrieï¬ng experience (p < 0.001). No relationship was found between students’ self-perceptions of prebriefing experience and the researcher-rated simulation performance.
Conclusion: Theory-based, structured prebrieï¬ng can impact nursing student competency performance, clinical judgment and perceptions of prebrieï¬ng, and may enhance meaningful simulation learning. A detailed description of the model-based prebriefing intervention worksheet will be provided, and an interactive discussion of possibilities for its use in varied academic and clinical settings, with global applications, will be facilitated. Prebriefing, as the first phase of simulation, has implications for transforming nursing knowledge, education and practice throughout the entire simulation process, and beyond.
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Non-member
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Presentation
Format Type
Text-based Document
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Keywords:
Nursing knowledge and practice, Prebriefing, Simulation learning
Recommended Citation
Page-Cutrara, Karin, "Simulation Pre-Briefing: Supporting Competency and Judgment Development in Nursing Learning" (2017). INRC (Congress). 218.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/inrc/2017/presentations_2017/218
Conference Name
28th International Nursing Research Congress
Conference Host
Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Dublin, Ireland
Conference Year
2017
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Simulation Pre-Briefing: Supporting Competency and Judgment Development in Nursing Learning
Dublin, Ireland
Purpose: The purpose of this experimental study was to describe a newly developed model-based, structured prebriefing intervention and its effect on nursing students’ competency performance, clinical judgment, and their perceived prebriefing experience, and to describe its application to teaching practice. Prebriefing begins the simulation process and introduces the participants to the simulation, learning experience (Chamberlain, 2015; Rudolph, Raemer, & Simon, 2014). However, little nursing education research is available on this activity, and how it relates to the development of nursing knowledge and practice. Reflection theory and concept mapping underpinned the development of a model on which this intervention was based, to prepare students for meaningful simulation learning (Decker et al., 2010; author, 2014).
Methods:  An experimental group-randomized design was used to compare the intervention group, which received structured prebriefing and the control group, which received customary orientation activities. This study was conducted at a university school of nursing in Canada. Baccalaureate nursing students (N = 76) in a traditional four-year program, who were enrolled in a fourth-year medical-surgical course, participated. Competency performance, clinical judgment, and the perceptions of the prebriefing experiences in each group were examined, in addition to the relationship between simulation performance and students' self-rated prebriefing experience. Scores from the Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument and the Prebriefing Experience Scale were analyzed using parametric and non-parametric statistics.
Results: A statistically signiï¬cant difference was demonstrated between groups for competency performance (p < 0.001), clinical judgment (p < 0.001) and prebrieï¬ng experience (p < 0.001). No relationship was found between students’ self-perceptions of prebriefing experience and the researcher-rated simulation performance.
Conclusion: Theory-based, structured prebrieï¬ng can impact nursing student competency performance, clinical judgment and perceptions of prebrieï¬ng, and may enhance meaningful simulation learning. A detailed description of the model-based prebriefing intervention worksheet will be provided, and an interactive discussion of possibilities for its use in varied academic and clinical settings, with global applications, will be facilitated. Prebriefing, as the first phase of simulation, has implications for transforming nursing knowledge, education and practice throughout the entire simulation process, and beyond.