Evaluation of Nursing Skills Acquisition of Reflective e-Learning System for Nursing Students by Different Learning Methods

Abstract

We have been developing the reflective e-learning system for nursing skill acquisition by comparison between the video of a nursing student’s skill and the video of a nurse’s skill model. This system is intended to support learners’ skill acquisition by (1) the procedure-learning function, by which learners can confirm their own procedures; (2) the image-comparing function, by which they can make a comparison between their own video and a skilled nurse’s model video; (3) the text-entry function, by which they can describe their finding; and (4) the learning portfolio output by the text-output function. We verified their respective learning effects and the actual skill acquisition through the following learning methods: the "comparative learning of own images and the nurses' images (A)", the process of "peer review (sharing peer nursing students' awareness, opinions, and thoughts)";"comparative learning of others' images and nurses' images (B)" or "learning from others' descriptions of awareness (C)" by using this e-learning system. The results of score increase and success-failure change of the procedure and its caution items were better in groups as the compared than in group 1 as the control group. We suggest that this reflective e-learning system was confirmed to be effective.