Purpose: This study was to examine the effect of psychiatric nursing practical training using standardized patient for nursing college students. Methods: This research design was quasi-experimental pre-and-post-test control and experimental group meth...
Purpose: This study was to examine the effect of psychiatric nursing practical training using standardized patient for nursing college students. Methods: This research design was quasi-experimental pre-and-post-test control and experimental group methodological comparison study. The total subjects were 44(Exp=23, Con=21) nursing college students in G city. The experimental group received psychiatric nursing practical training using standardized patient, but the control group did not receive treatment. Data were collected by self-reported structured questionnaires from 1st to 15th Oct. 2011, and be analyzed with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, ?2?test, Fisher's exact test, and t-test using SPSS/Win 17.0 program. Results: After the treatment, between the experimental and control groups, there were significant differences in the level of motivation of transfer (t=1.71, p=.047), learning self-efficacy (t=4.70, p<.001). The mean score per item for learning satisfaction was 4.28. Conclusion: Based on the above findings, psychiatric nursing practical training using standardized patient was a useful method for practical ability. Therefore, enhancement of performance ability related to practice has to be done by developing psychiatric nursing practical training program with various case and content.
Key words: Standardized Patient, Self-efficacy, Satisfaction, Motivation of transfer