Date
5-22-2024
Department
School of Nursing
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Chair
Shelley Blackwood
Keywords
minority, faculty, facilitator, clinical judgement, mentor
Disciplines
Nursing
Recommended Citation
King, Rachael, "Facilitator Ethnicity and Clinical Judgement among Senior Minority Students Using Unfolding Case Studies" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5676.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5676
Abstract
Unfolding case studies are a technique used in advancing critical thinking in order for nursing students to enhance their clinical judgement. The format at which they are delivered can influence the degree of learning, understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating for students, especially senior minority nursing students. This quasi-experimental posttest survey between-groups study involved implementing unfolding case studies with a randomly selected minority or non-minority facilitator video recording for senior minority nursing students. After completing the case study, all participants were given a posttest survey, the Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Scale (Jenkins, 1983). The survey evaluates students’ self-perceived clinical judgement. A quasi-experimental, posttest survey between-groups design with an independent-samples t-test was used for data analysis when comparing scores of the group of students who viewed the minority facilitator to those who viewed the non-minority facilitator. The aim of this study was to identify if there was a difference in clinical judgement scores between a group of senior minority students (n = 34) completing an unfolding case study with a minority facilitator and a group of senior minority students (n = 31) completing an unfolding case study with a non-minority facilitator. The results of the independent-samples t-test determined there was not a statistically significant difference between clinical judgement scores with F = 1.390, t (65) = 1.133, p = .131. Though not statistically significant, the results inform nurse educators and administrators of additional teaching methods that can be used to assist senior minority nursing students to prepare to successfully pass the NCLEX-RN® (NCSBN, 2022) on the first attempt, as well as increase their readiness into practice.
