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Background: In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, there is a requirement of innovative strategies to enhance nursing students' learning transfer. Virtual Reality Simulation Problem-Based Learning (VRS-PBL) has been validated to be an advantageous strategy that can improve knowledge, clinical performance, and self-efficacy. We aimed to identify the effectiveness of VRS-PBL for improving nursing students' neurologic examination.
Methods: Data were collected in 2021. Seventy-six participants were recruited via the convenience sampling. Students in the control group underwent conventional lecture and demonstration of neurological assessment prior to practicum, whereas students in the experimental group underwent VRS-PBL once a week for 2 weeks (60 minutes per session).
Results: Compared with the control group, the academic self-efficacy (t = -2.80, P = .007) and neurological examination performance (t = -11.62, P < .001) of the nursing students increased significantly in the experimental group. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between the two groups of the transfer motivation (t = -1.76, P = .082).
Conclusion: The nursing students integrated the knowledge and skills learned through VRS-PBL, and improved the effectiveness and efficiency of their learning. VRS-PBL that reflects various clinical situations can be used as a foundation for establishing effective teaching strategies to improve nursing competency from novice to expert nurses.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.