Story-Based Online Simulations in the Context of Acute Care Nursing: Development, Feasibility and Nursing Students’ Learning Experiences
Asunmaa, Marjut (2023)
Asunmaa, Marjut
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023112030333
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023112030333
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Registered nurse’s education in Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences is planned to offer competencies that are required in the profession. Teaching methods combine traditional lectures with simulations, but more and more teachers need skills for online teaching. Distance learning is increasing in nursing education, and it challenges teachers to renew their teaching methods.
This thesis presents the development process of Story-Based Online Simulations (S-BOS). The context of the S-BOS is in acute care nursing. Service design methods were used and the data for this research was collected from 166 (n=166) nursing students who participated at SeAMK’s Campus Online course Nursing in acute and critical situations in summer 2021. The data collection method was a questionnaire that contained quantitative and qualitative questions. The data was used to study the feasibility of the S-BOS and nursing students’ learning experiences of the S-BOS.
The aim of the research part of this thesis is to provide knowledge that can be used when developing online teaching methods and simulations as part of the nursing studies. The research objectives are to describe the nursing students’ perspectives of the feasibility and their learning experiences of the S-BOS.
According to the results, the feasibility of the S-BOS was on a good level and nursing students enjoyed it as a learning method. Only minor changes needed to be done, based on the results of the feasibility study. Nursing students’ learning experiences were analyzed with inductive content analysis. S-BOS supports nursing students’ learning the content of the acute care nursing and learning about myself as a learner.
The conclusions indicate that service design is a suitable method when developing new teaching methods and it should be used more often to develop higher education. Story-based online simulations can be an effective teaching method for nursing students, but more research is needed.
Research on teachers’ competencies of using service design methods as well as their competencies of online teaching and using story-based teaching method is needed.
This thesis presents the development process of Story-Based Online Simulations (S-BOS). The context of the S-BOS is in acute care nursing. Service design methods were used and the data for this research was collected from 166 (n=166) nursing students who participated at SeAMK’s Campus Online course Nursing in acute and critical situations in summer 2021. The data collection method was a questionnaire that contained quantitative and qualitative questions. The data was used to study the feasibility of the S-BOS and nursing students’ learning experiences of the S-BOS.
The aim of the research part of this thesis is to provide knowledge that can be used when developing online teaching methods and simulations as part of the nursing studies. The research objectives are to describe the nursing students’ perspectives of the feasibility and their learning experiences of the S-BOS.
According to the results, the feasibility of the S-BOS was on a good level and nursing students enjoyed it as a learning method. Only minor changes needed to be done, based on the results of the feasibility study. Nursing students’ learning experiences were analyzed with inductive content analysis. S-BOS supports nursing students’ learning the content of the acute care nursing and learning about myself as a learner.
The conclusions indicate that service design is a suitable method when developing new teaching methods and it should be used more often to develop higher education. Story-based online simulations can be an effective teaching method for nursing students, but more research is needed.
Research on teachers’ competencies of using service design methods as well as their competencies of online teaching and using story-based teaching method is needed.