Nurse education today
-
Nurse education today · Jan 2019
The impact of combining concept-based learning and concept-mapping pedagogies on nursing students' clinical reasoning abilities.
Integrating contemporary teaching strategies into the nursing curriculum is an effective approach to enhance undergraduate clinical-judgment and reasoning abilities. ⋯ The data collection tools utilized in this study can be used as clinical teaching aides, hence maximizing the impact of blended teaching strategies by providing the faculty with specific feedback regarding students' clinical reasoning and judgment abilities. Institutionalizing these processes by initiating relevant policies and guidelines is essential to help students take command of their clinical-reasoning, maturity, and responsibility in a practice area that is constantly changing and evolving.