The Relationship between Assessment Skills and Nursing Knowledge ()
Affiliation(s)
1School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.
2School of Medicine & Hospital, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.
3Health Service Center, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
4School of Education, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
ABSTRACT
This research aimed to clarify the relationship between nursing students’ levels of structural knowledge and assessment skills. Participants were 17 third-year university students majoring in nursing who participated individually in the experiments. The experiments included a nursing-scene task, free-recall task, and sorting task. Experiments were conducted before and after their clinical practice. Each student’s level of structural knowledge was calculated from the free-recall and sorting task responses, and each student’s assessment skill was calculated from the nursing-scene task responses. Levels of structural knowledge were significantly higher in post-examination compared with pre-examination (p < 0.01). Assessment skills scores were also significantly higher in post-examination compared with pre-examination (p < 0.001). When comparing assessment skills in relation to levels of structural knowledge, the high-structured group (n = 5) had significantly higher scores for their conclusions and reasons than the low-structured group (n = 5) (p < 0.001). Information-collecting scores in the task case did not differ between the low- and high-structured groups, although the high-structured group tended to mention information that was not included in the task case (p < 0.10). Well-structured knowledge of students in the high-structured group seemed to enable them to acquire and activate highly related information during assessment. Students in the high-structured group apparently made assessments not only by using information given but also by over viewing information comprehensively.
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Aizu, K. , Mikami, K. , Tsuchiya, R. , Shimizu, M. , Kojima, N. , Oka, N. and Nishizawa, Y. (2015) The Relationship between Assessment Skills and Nursing Knowledge.
Open Journal of Nursing,
5, 1072-1081. doi:
10.4236/ojn.2015.512114.
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