Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of debriefing program applying patient safety analysis and comparison of knowledge and attitude toward patient safety. Method: A nested design of pretest-posttest control group was used with root cause analysis for debriefing. The participants were 58 undergraduate nursing students recruited from one university in Chungcheong province. They were assigned to either an experimental group (n=28 or a control group (n=30). A structured root cause analysis method for debriefing program offered to the experimental group whereas the control group did not receive any program. The data were analyzed using the PASW 23.0 program with χ2test, t-test, and ANOVA. Results: The participants who had participated in the root cause analysis in the debriefing showed significant difference (p < .001). Conclusion: The result of this study found that the root cause analysis method in the debriefing improved patient safety. Therefore, this program can be widely used in nursing curriculum because it leads to efficient debriefing and improves patient safety through root cause analysis.

Purpose: This study aimed to clarify the effects of simulation-based practice using a standardized patient on nursing students’ problem-solving capacity, self-efficacy for therapeutic communications, and confidence in clinical performance. Methods: We adopted a one-group pretest–posttest experimental design. We examined changes in the students’ problem-solving capacity, self-efficacy for therapeutic communications, and confidence in clinical performance before and after simulation-based practice and after clinical practicum. Results: The scores for problem-solving capacity increased from 159.28 before simulation-based practice to 263.02 after it and 161.99 after clinical practicum, but there was no statistical significance(p=.775, p=.339). The scores for self-efficacy for therapeutic communications rose with statistical significance from 120.78 before simulation-based practice to 126.30 after it (p= .017), but fell to 120.52 after clinical practicum. The scores for confidence in clinical performance increased with statistical significance from 54.98 before simulation-based practice to 59.42 after it (p=.008) and 58.50 after clinical practicum (p<.001). Conclusion: We confirmed that simulation-based practice with a standardized patient offers students hands-on experience of a clinical situation and, thereby, enhances their problem-solving capacity, self-efficacy for therapeutic communications, and confidence in clinical performance.

Purpose: This study aimed to observe coping strategies and career identity in nursing students, and examine the influence of coping strategy on career identity. Methods: Data from 329 third- and fourth-year nursing students was collected using structured self-reports questionnaires for two months. Descriptive statistics were calculated and the data analyzed with independent t-tests, Pearson correlation coefficients, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results: The nursing students scored highest on the passive coping style of hopeful thinking. Positive coping strategies were positively correlated with career identity. The final regression model showed that coping strategy and satisfaction with the participant’s major accounted for 37.6% of the variance in predictions of career identity, with problem-focused coping strategy as the single most influential factor. Conclusion: These findings suggest that a range of active efforts are needed to increase the use of problem-focused coping strategies to improve the career identity of nursing students.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate differences in nursing performance of nursing college students following simulator training or video-based training for patients with respiratory distress. Methods: The study used a two-group post-intervention design. The simulator group was trained using a high-fidelity simulator and the video group with a best practices video. Nursing ability was evaluated by video recording participants during a dyspnea simulation exercise. The collected data was analyzed with a t-test using SPSS 21. Results: The simulator group showed lower scores than the video group in the preparation (t = -4.60, p < .001) and nursing intervention (t = -2.41, p = .033) categories. Conclusion: Video training is effective for simulation education in cases of dyspnea.

Purpose: This study was tried to identify the effects of simulation practice education on the clinical competence, critical thinking disposition and self-confidence of nursing process in new graduated nurses. Methods: This study was one group pre-post test design, participants are 50 new graduated nurses with less than 3 month of working experience. The simulation practice education applied the first semester of the third grade, over 15 weeks with 1 credit per 2 hours per week by two instructors with four scenarios. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, paired t-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficients using the SPSS WIN 21.0 program. Result: There was a significant difference simulation practice education on the clinical competence and critical thinking disposition in the new graduated nurses. There was a correlation between clinical competence and critical thinking disposition. Conclusion: New nurses' capacity can be strengthened by applying simulation practice education that improve the clinical performance by enhance the critical thinking Disposition.