Application of clinical case-guided, task-driven escape room teaching in nursing education: A quasi-experimental study

Background

In the new era, the professional ability requirements for nursing personnel are no longer limited to traditional nursing knowledge and skills, but pay more attention to the cultivation and enhancement of their diversified abilities, such as humanistic caring ability, creative thinking, and so on. As a new type of education model that integrates gamification, flipped learning, and problem-based learning, escape room teaching plays an important role in effectively developing and stimulating students' humanistic care ability and creative thinking.

Purpose

To investigate the effectiveness of an Escape Room teaching approach, clinical cases (C) as guide (G) and task (T) as driver (D) , within the CGTD model in the undergraduate Adult Nursing course.

Method

Using purposive sampling, 108 undergraduate nursing students in the class of 2020 were selected as the study subjects, and 11 innovative escape room teaching activities were conducted. Real clinical cases were selected, so that the student teams were immersed in clinical scenarios to complete the escape room game focusing on circulatory care, and the humanistic caring and creative thinking of the students in the two groups were compared before and after the intervention.

Results

Nursing students' humanistic care and creative thinking scores at the end of the instruction were significantly better than those before the escape room instruction (P<0.05).

Conclusion

The use of the CGTD-based escape room teaching method applied to adult nursing practice courses is an innovative teaching strategy that integrates theoretical knowledge into the game, which can significantly improve undergraduate nursing students' humanistic caring ability and creative thinking.