Qualitative Evaluation of Nursing Students’ Feedback Concerning a Terminal Care Simulation

ABSTRACT

Purpose: To clarify the contents of nursing students’ feedback after they participated in a terminal care simulation. Method: Free description type answer sentences were analyzed qualitatively using Berelson’s content analysis. Results: Participants were 39 students. Feedback contents were divided into 334 recording units. As the result of analysis, 13 categories, including “acquisition of knowledge on communication,” “evaluation on method of implementation,” “self-understanding on nursing,” “self-positive-prospect on nursing,” “acquisition of knowledge on terminal care,” “evaluation on simulation ambience,” “acquisition of learning opportunities,” “self-positive-changing on nursing,” “effect of debriefing,” “effect of experience,” “feeling of reality,” “acquisition of knowledge on nursing” and “evaluation on faculty’s intervention” were formed. Conclusion: It was suggested that simulated patients contributed to making end of life clinical settings because the realism of the simulation had been apparent from the results. To make the terminal care simulation more developed, future studies should investigate how to give a briefing, and so on.