본 연구는 가상 시뮬레이션기반 노인간호 실습교육 실시 후 간호대학생의 몰입경험과 학습역량 이 학습만족도에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위한 조사연구이다. 연구 대상자는 간호대학 학생 72명을 대상으 로 하였고, 자료수집은 2021년 4월 2일부터 5월 7일까지 온라인 설문을 통해 수행하였다. 자료분석은 SPSS/WIN 24.0을 이용하여 기술통계, 상관관계 및 다중회귀분석을 사용하였다. 연구결과, 가상 시뮬레이 션 교육 후 간호대학생의 학습만족도는 몰입경험(r=.656, p<.001), 학습역량(r=.672, p<.001)과 유의한 정 적 상관관계를 보였다. 학습만족도에 가장 영향력이 있는 요인은 학습역량(β=.459, p<.001), 몰입경험(β =.413, p<.001)으로 나타났으며 모형의 설명력은 60.9%이었다. 그러므로 가상 시뮬레이션 교육 후 학습만 족도를 향상시키기 위해서 실습에 대한 몰입을 촉진하고 개개인의 학습역량을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안들을 개발할 것을 제언한다.

Purpose: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for protecting healthcare workers from COVID-19 outbreaks. Therefore, this study examined the effects of a nursing simulation education program on PPE use for COVID-19 among nursing students. Methods: We employed a non-equivalent control group post-test design. The experimental group (n=38) engaged in a nursing simulation education program on PPE use. The control group (n=36) received PPE and the opportunity to participate in the same program after the intervention. Further, data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent t-test. Results: The experimental group showed significant differences in attitude toward PPE (t=3.21, p=.002) and efficacy of PPE use (t=9.92, p<.001), but not in the intention to care for patients with COVID-19 (t=0.95, p=.343). Conclusion: Nursing simulation education for PPE significantly improved attitude and increased self-efficacy toward PPE among nursing students. However, the intention to care for COVID-19 patients was not changed. Thus, it is necessary to find a way to improve the nursing intention toward COVID-19 patients.

Purpose: This study developed an educational program for structured discussion-based learning, problem-based learning (PBL), and simulation for nursing students. Its effects on learning attitude, problem-solving process, and clinical competence were then analyzed. Methods: This study used a one-group pretest–posttest experimental method among 135 fourth-year nursing students taking the simulation course at a university in D city. We operated the PBL by applying the structured discussion method and simulation education based on four modules covering major diseases among adults. The data collected before and after the program were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired t-tests. Results: The program significantly improved nursing students’ learning attitude, problem-solving process, and clinical competence. Conclusions: We verified the effects of the simulation education program for structured discussion-based learning and PBL. Further studies are needed to develop and apply simulation educational programs utilizing various devices that can improve learners’ participation and professors’ operational protocols by systematically combining them with different teaching/learning methods.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify trends in disaster nursing education and conduct a systematic review of the characteristics of simulation-based disaster education programs for nursing students. Method: In May 2020, 12 electronic databases were used to conduct a literature search using Korean and English keywords. Simulation, disaster, nursing, and education were among the search keywords. Fourteen studies were selected. The risk of bias assessment tool for non-randomized studies was used to assess study quality. Results: A total of 14 non-randomized studies were selected. Simulation was mainly conducted using high-fidelity simulators and virtual reality simulations. Disaster scenarios included situations such as a bus crash, earthquake, tornado, and toxic chemical exposure in mass casualty incident nursing or disaster drills. There were differences in the methods of simulation interventions, and we found that disaster related nursing competencies such as disaster knowledge, disaster preparedness, disaster performance, confidence, self-efficacy, and ethical reasoning improved in nursing students after the intervention. Conclusion: Disaster nursing education aims to improve nursing students’ disaster competencies. Future research should examine significant risk of bias control for confounding variables, attrition bias, and outcome evaluation.

Purpose: This study aims to describe the experience of nursing students who used a virtual simulation program for their nursing practicum. Method: Structured debriefing papers were collected from 65 senior nursing students using a convenient sampling method for this qualitative study. Conventional content analysis method was used for data analysis. Results: The study’s findings derived three theme clusters. The theme clusters were “satisfied by leading role in nursing practice and repetitive training,” “gained nursing responsibility and confidence in applying the learning into clinical practice,” and “recognized the limitations of customized nursing care.” Conclusion: The results of this study provided insight into nursing students' virtual simulation-based practical training experiences in the context of the Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and analyze the education experiences of nursing graduate students in training simulation educators. Methods: Data were collected using a focus group method with a total of 13 nursing graduate students who ever participated in simulation education for nursing college students. Results: Four theme clusters and 15 sub-themes were emerged through qualitative content analysis. The core theme was “Flapping wings as a novice simulation educator”. The four theme clusters include ‘Confronting myself where expectations and worries coexist’, ‘Experience a new world untrained in the hospital’, ‘Limitation of simulation hard to reach the reality’, ‘Way to become an expert in simulation education’. Conclusion: Nursing graduate students found that the experiences of novice learners as a simulation educator was rewarding and helpful in increasing their self-confidence prior to being placed in an educational setting. Creating a simulation experience for college students could be a daunting task for educators in nursing. Therefore, continued and sustainable efforts are mandated by developing the curriculum for training simulation educators.

Purpose: This study examines the effects of clinical nursing simulation education program based on problem-based learning (S-PBL) on clinical reasoning, confidence in handover reports, confidence in nursing performance, and simulation effectiveness in nursing students. Method: We used a one-group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 4th-year university nursing students who had taken a core clinical nursing practice, and 90 students participated in the S-PBL program. Data were collected before and after the S-PBL program and analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired t-tests. Results: The S-PBL program significantly increased clinical reasoning, confidence in handover reports, and confidence in nursing performance. More than 90% of students were satisfied with the education program and the simulation education effectiveness was 2.54 on a 3-point Likert scale. Conclusion: The S-PBL program could be useful in clinical nursing education for nursing students seeking to become clinical nurses. It is necessary to develop various S-PBL programs and apply them to the curriculum.

Purpose: This study aims to understand and describe in-depth the meaning of evidence-based simulation training education experience of nursing students. Method: This is a qualitative study employing a phenomenological approach. Data were collected from eight seniors in Changshin university in Changwon, from November to December, 2019. The analysis was based on the method proposed by Giorgi. Results: A total of 4 components and 12 sub-components were derived from the analysis. The evidence-based simulation training education experience of nursing students was found to be “burdening Because of the new teaching method,” “immersive,” “an experience of a new field of learning,” and “improving the nursing capacity.” Conclusion: Conclusion: Although the simulation training education burdened participants because of new teaching methods, it is expected to contribute to overcoming the limitations of educational effects in clinical practice and enhance practical clinical performance. Evidence-based simulation training education provides an opportunity to decide rationally by considering the best scientific evidence, clinical expertise, patient values and preferences, and available resources. In the furture, improvement in evidencebased nursing practice is expected.

Purpose: This study examined the effects of simulation-based education for high-risk maternity on evaluating problem-solving process, self-leadership, critical thinking disposition, and selfefficacy of nursing students. Method: This study was a one-group pretest-postest test design with 81 junior nursing students as participants. Data were collected from September 4 to December 11, 2019, after students completed their simulation practice class. Students completed a survey on their problem-solving process, self-leadership, critical thinking disposition, and self-efficacy at the beginning and end of the class. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients using the SPSS WIN 21.0 program. Results: Students’ problem-solving process (t=-7.06, p<.001), self-leadership (t=-3.08, p=.003), critical thinking disposition (t=-2.12, p=.037), and self-efficacy (t=-6.01, p<.001) showed significant improvement after the simulation-based education for high-risk maternity. There was a positive relation between problem-solving process and self-leadership (r=.52, p<.001), critical thinking disposition (r=.39, p<.001), and self-efficacy (r=.53, p<.001). Conclusion: There is a need to supplement the limitations of clinical practice education by providing a simulation-based education environment similar to a hospital since the experience of clinical practice alone is not sufficient to improve students' knowledge and skills. Results of this study may be used as a basic data for efficiently performing simulation-based education on high-risk maternity.

Purpose: This study is examined the effects of simulation practice education with problem-based learning methods on nursing students' learning attitudes, learning satisfaction, critical thinking disposition, and problem-solving ability. Method: A quasi-experiment single group pretest-posttest design was adopted. Simulation education was conducted by utilizing problem-based learning methods to teach the following topics to nursing students enrolled in 4th grade in S city: respiratory, circulatory, and nervous system. The experiment was conducted for 12 weeks, from September to December, 2019. Paired t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient were used to analyze the collected data. Results: Learning attitude and problem-solving ability showed significant differences in the experiment. Among the sub-areas of problem-solving ability, there were significant differences in the following: problem recognition (p<.001), information gathering (p<.001), confident thinking disposition (p<.001), acceptance to carry out an adventure (p<.001), evaluation (p=.027), and feedback (p<.001). In addition, learning attitude showed significant positive correlations with learning satisfaction, critical thinking disposition, and problem-solving ability. Conclusion: The findings of this study suggest that, it is necessary to develop a variety of iterative studies and simulation scenarios to confirm the effectiveness of simulation training.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the current status and needs of nursing education for extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants in Korea, and to obtain preliminary information to develop a simulation-based educational program on nursing care for nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICUs). Method: Descriptive survey design was adopted in developing an ELBW infant nursing education program. Data were collected from 71 NICU nurses using a questionnaire survey. Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) (version 23) for windows was used to analyze the frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation of the collected data. Results: Seventy-one nurses working in the NICU reported that majority of them (76.1%) had experience in ELBW infants’ nursing education. The following were highly recommended for simulated training by NICU nurses: nursing intervention immediately after birth in ELBW infants (69.0%), NICU‘ initial admission nursing (66.2%), and frequency response coping nursing (57.7%). Conclusion: The study revealed that there is a considerable need for the ELBW infants nursing education program. The results of this survey will ultimately provide a basis for developing simulation-based ELBW infants nursing training programs for NICU nurses.

Purpose: Simulation-based education combined with mastery learning is more effective than simulation-based education alone. This study aimed to evaluate its effectiveness with regard to both technical and non-technical skills of simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) in blood transfusion training among undergraduate nursing students. Method: A nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. Fifty-one second-year students at a college of nursing in W city, South Korea, who had not started clinical practice were selected by convenience sampling and allocated to either the experimental or control group using the zigzag method. SBML program was consisted of a diagnostic test, repeated learning and formative assessments for non-passers. All outcome variables were measured before and after completion of the program. Results: The experimental group showed significantly increased performance scores of blood transfusion as compared to the control group (z=29.50, p＜.001), with better outcomes in number of students achieving minimum passing score (χ2 =20.07, p＜.001), self-confidence (F=17.68, p＜.001), and communication skills (z=166.00, p=.003). Conclusion: This program was effective for undergraduate students to better improvement in performance, self-confidence, and communication skills, which can ensure greater safety in the transfusion. The results suggest that SBML ensures skill acquisition for clinical practice through improved performances in both technical and non-technical skills.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between self-efficacy in communication, flow, and nursing students’ competence in communication, and examined the effect of self-efficacy on communication, and the effect of flow on competence in communication. Method: Data of 123 fourth-year nursing students were collected using structured self-report questionnaires in simulation-based education. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results: Self-efficacy in communication, flow, and competence in communication were positively correlated. The final regression model showed that self-efficacy in communication and flow accounted for 31.4% of the variance in predictions of competence in communication. Additionally, self-efficacy in communication was the most influential factor. Conclusion: The study supports a strategy to improve self-efficacy in communication and flow by improving nursing students’ competence in communication in simulation-based education.

Purpose: This study was conducted to provide simulation training on evidence-based practical training and to examine its effects. Method: Data were collected from 83 students at C University, between October 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018. This training was conducted over a 5-week period. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Friedman test, the Wilcoxon signedrank test, and Repeated Measure ANOVA, all after the normality test. Results: There was a significant difference between the two groups in evidence-based practice beliefs, competence, nursing profession perspective, critical thinking tendencies, and problem-solving ability (p<.001). More specifically, there was a greater improvement in evidence-based practice knowledge, critical thinking tendency, and problem-solving ability than in the existing simulation exercise. Conclusion: Being effective in enhancing the ability to provide evidence-based practice beliefs, competencies, nursing profession perspectives, and, especially in evidence-based practice knowledge, critical thinking tendencies, and problem-solving skills, it is necessary to link evidence-based education and existing simulation training.

Purpose: Debriefing is very important in simulation-based education. The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of structured team debriefing on clinical performance, self-confidence in nursing activities, and the satisfaction of nursing students, using mind mapping. Method: A non-equivalent control group post-test design was conducted. The participants in the study were 83 nursing students. The experimental group consisted of 42 seniors in 2018, and the control group consisted of 41 seniors in 2019. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire and an observed performance checklist. The collected data were analyzed using chi-square and independent t-tests with the statistical software package IBM SPSS/WIN 25.0. Results: There were significant differences in clinical performance (t=7.64, p<.001), self-confidence in nursing activities (t=4.93, p<.001), and learner’ satisfaction (t=2.94, p=.004) between the experimental and the control groups. Conclusion: These results indicate that simulation-based nursing education applying structured team debriefing using mind mapping was effective in improving nursing students' clinical performance, self-confidence in nursing activities, and satisfaction. Thus, there is a need to develop and apply a range of clinical scenarios and debriefing strategies in simulation-based nursing education. Technical and non-technical skills of nursing students also need to be evaluated in simulation-based nursing education using various debriefing methods.

본 연구의 목적은 시뮬레이션기반 실습교육이 간호대학생들의 고용가능성, 진로탐색행동 및 진로결정 자기효능감에 미치는 효과를 확인하고자 시도되었다. 비동등성 대조군 전후설계를 적용한 유사실험 설계로 J지역 소재 3학년 학생을 편의표집하여 총 120명의 간호대학생들로, 실험군 60명, 대조군 60명이 연구에 참여하였다. 실험군은 6주간 실험에 참여하였다. 연구결과, 시뮬레이션기반 실습교육은 간호대학생의 고용가능성(t=-2.31, p=.023), 진로탐색행동(t=-3.05, p=.003)을 유의하게 증가시켰으나, 진로결정자 기효능감(t=-.87, p=.387)은 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 없었다. 결론적으로 시뮬레이션기반 실습교육은 간호대학생들의 교육에 유용하므로 강화해야 할 것이다.

Purpose: This study was conducted to explore Virtual Reality (VR) utilization strategies in scenario-based nursing simulation training. Method: This was an integrative review for the identification of scenario-based VR simulation training applied to nursing undergraduates. The existing literature was searched in electronic databases using RISS, PubMed, and Pro-Quest and the key words were “Scenario based,” “Simulation,” “Virtual reality,” “Virtual training,” and “Nursing.” Finally, five studies were analyzed. Results: All the studies were conducted from 2016 to 2019. One RCT, two quasi-experimental studies, and two mixed method studies were identified. The topics of the scenarios were all different; acute myocardial infarction, management of respiratory system disease with hypoxia, postoperative nursing with appendicitis, teamwork and communication in outpatient and emergency situations, and disaster situation training . The outcome variables that were significant statistically were performance, self-confidence, and learning satisfaction. Conclusion: The findings suggest that virtual simulation in nursing education can potentially improve knowledge, performance, and learning confidence and can increase satisfaction with learning experience among nursing undergraduates. Multidisciplinary cooperation and investment are needed to develop diverse content applying VR in nursing simulation education. The review of the side effects also needs to be performed.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of simulation-based disaster nursing education programs on nursing college students’ disaster nursing knowledge, attitude toward disasters, and basic disaster nursing implementation abilities. Method: This study is similar to an experimental study that applied before-and-after designs for test groups and control groups. It was configured focusing on “earthquakes,” “fires,” “infectious diseases,” and “hospital disaster preparation.” Our simulation-based disaster nursing education program was configured to improve nursing students’ abilities to immediately respond to problems through the integration of nursing courses. Results: The test group that received the simulation-based disaster nursing education program showed a statistically significant increase in disaster nursing knowledge, attitude toward disasters, and basic disaster nursing implementation abilities, compared to the control group. Conclusion: Through the results of this study, simulation-based disaster nursing education programs were found to be effective in improving disaster nursing implementation abilities. Therefore, efforts should be made so that simulation-based disaster nursing educational courses take root to improve the disaster preparedness abilities of college students majoring in nursing.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide basic data for developing strategies to improve the learning effect of simulation by analyzing the reflective journaling after the simulation based learning on the nursing of patients with upper gastrointestinal (UGI) bleeding. Method: From September 19–29, 2016, we conducted a simulation of UGI bleeding patient nursing with fourth-year students in the nursing department of University B in City A, and analyzed the data using content analysis. Results: In this study, reflective journaling can be an effective educational method to strengthen nursing competence, such as the self-reflection of nursing students, evidence-based nursing practice, teamwork, and communication ability. Conclusion: Reflective journaling after practice in simulation-based education is an important process in training critical thinking, situational judgment, and reflection of nursing practice content, and needs to be extended to both on-campus practice and clinical practice.