Applying Blending Problem-Based Learning with Group Discussion in Clinical Nursing Process Education: An educational evaluation study

Background: The nursing process (NP) is an organizing framework for planning and providing individualized nursing care. Nurse educators are encouraged to pare down curricular content and integrate ingenious learning-centered education. In this contemporary period, nurse educators need improve nursing education and move beyond traditional education. In this regard, problem-based learning (PBL) has become increasingly popular and group discussion (GD) increases the focus on the topics and facilities learning. This study aimed to determine the effect of blending PBL with a GD on clinical NP education. Methods: This educational evaluation study by quasi-experimental, one side blind methods was conducted on all ۲۸ third-semester undergraduate nursing students by census sampling method. The students were taught all of the phases of NP and PBL at the beginning of the semester. This study was performed on the “Medical-Surgical Nursing ۱”(Med-Surg ۱) clinical course. Three group (n = ۱۸) was randomly selected as the experimental group and three other groups (n = ۲۰) were randomly selected as the control group. Results: The results of independent samples t-test indicated a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups for each of the assessed nursing process stages, as well as for the all NP phases and overall score; t= ۳.۳۶ , P= ۰.۰۰۲, which confirmed that blending PBL with GD was effective. Conclusion: This blended method might encourage students to engage more effectively in the learning process and to be considered as an influential method in teaching the clinical nursing.

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Problem-Based Learning ، Education