The Effect of Case-Based Education on the Development of Nursing Students' Clinical Reasoning Skills

This form consists of 9 questions, including students' nicknames, age, gender, duration of clinical experience, level of school success, and views on the nursing process

There were 10 clinical cases on the CRCF prepared for the objectives of these three steps in students' clinical reasoning process. The cases involved critical illness, and early warning findings that show worsening in critical illness and are used to determine priority nursing diagnosis.

Five people, who were experts in the field of medical nursing and had clinical experience, were consulted between February 15 and 28, 2021 to confirm the clinical accuracy and reality of CR cases and their content and comprehensibility. The content validity index of expert opinions evaluated with the Davis technique was determined as 1.

A questionnaire adapted from the study of Lee et al. (2010) was used to evaluate students' satisfaction with the education given. A 6-point Likert-type scale (1= strongly disagree, 6= strongly agree) was used to evaluate the ten items of the questionnaire. The 10th item on the questionnaire is reverse coded. High scores on the questionnaire indicate a high level of satisfaction.

The effectiveness of the education model was evaluated by the researchers with a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) based on data collected from students in the experimental group without obtaining nicknames or personal information after the completion of the education via an online questionnaire that consisted of 4 questions about the strengths, weaknesses, perceived threats, and opportunities of the education model.