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- Title
THE COMPARISON OF PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF THE MILITARY NURSING STUDENTS TRAINED IN CLASICAL AND INTEGRATED PROGRAMS AT GMMA: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY.
- Authors
OZCAN, Celale Tangul; GUVENC, Gulten
- Abstract
AIM: To evaluate the problem solving skills of military nursing students in 4-year integrated undergraduate education programs. METHODS: This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of the new curriculum on the problem solving ability of the students and to compare the two students group who attended in different curriculum. The research has a comparison group‟s descriptive research design. The longitudinal study was also designed to evaluate the changes between the beginning and the end of the integrated education in the same group. In 2003-2004, the classical curriculum has converted to a integrated curriculum at GMMA school of nursing. In 2004-2005 academic years, first year students who trained with integrated program and last year students trained with classical program were evaluated by using the Problem Solving Inventory and a questionnaire form about the sociodemographics. These students who trained with integrated program were re-evaluated at the end of their nursing careers and again after 4 years, just before their graduation in 2009. All the registered students were asked to participate in the study. In the longitudinal assessment, the first measurement was performed with the 95 first grades students in ıntegrated program and 83 fourth year students trained ın the classical program. A second measurement was performed with 73 (77% participation) out of these 95 students using the same scales at the end of their education. FINDINGS: An increase in the scores of the Problem Solving Inventory was observed in longitudinal studies. There was no a statistical significant difference between the last year students who trained in integrated and in classical program (p>0.05). CONCLUSION‟s: The findings have shown that problem solvıng skills developed during undergraduate nursing education. Further research is indicated. Both programs seem more effective on enhancing problem solving skills of military nursing students.
- Publication
Balkan Military Medical Review, 2013, Vol 16, p132
- ISSN
1107-6275
- Publication type
Article