A quantitative approach to evaluating caring in nursing simulation

This study was designed to test a quantitative method of measuring caring in the simulated environment. Since competency in caring is central to nursing practice, ways of including caring concepts in designing scenarios and in evaluation of performance need to be developed. Coates' Caring Effic...

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Published in:Nursing education perspectives 2012-11, Vol.33 (6), p.406-409
Main Authors: Eggenberger, Terry L, Keller, Kathryn B, Chase, Susan K, Payne, Linda
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Care and treatment
Caring
Clinical medicine
Competence
Competency-Based Education - methods
Correlational studies
Critical Care - methods
Design
Education
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate - methods
Educational Environment
Educational Practices
Evaluative Thinking
Female
Focus Groups
Humans
Interrater Reliability
Learning
Male
Measurement Techniques
Medical Evaluation
Methods
Models, Educational
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing care
Nursing education
Nursing Education Research
Nursing Students
Patient Simulation
Patients
Psychometrics
Psychometrics - methods
Psychomotor Skills
Simulated Environment
Simulated environment (Teaching method)
Simulation
Skills
Student Evaluation
Studies
Supervisors
Teaching Methods
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Summary:This study was designed to test a quantitative method of measuring caring in the simulated environment. Since competency in caring is central to nursing practice, ways of including caring concepts in designing scenarios and in evaluation of performance need to be developed. Coates' Caring Efficacy scales were adapted for simulation and named the Caring Efficacy Scale-Simulation Student Version (CES-SSV) and Caring Efficacy Scale-Simulation Faculty Version (CES-SFV). A correlational study was designed to compare student self-ratings with faculty ratings on caring efficacy during an adult acute simulation experience with traditional and accelerated baccalaureate students in a nursing program grounded in caring theory. Student self-ratings were significantly correlated with objective ratings (r = 0.345, 0.356). Both the CES-SSV and the CES-SFV were found to have excellent internal consistency and significantly correlated interrater reliability. They were useful in measuring caring in the simulated learning environment.
ISSN:1536-5026
1943-4685
DOI:10.5480/1536-5026-33.6.406