Effects of Emergency Nursing Simulation-based Education Program for Self-directed learning ability and Confidence in performance

This study is a non-equivalent control group pre-post test design in order to develop the emergency nursing simulation-based education program for hyperglycemia patients and to examine the effects of a simulation-based ed- ucation program on self-directed learning ability and confidence in performance of nursing students. Study participants were recruited from 2nd grade nursing students who attend the department of nursing of S University located in Seoul and composed of a experimental group(n=30) and control group(n=30). As the study procedure, 1 hour lecture education on diabetes was carried out to both groups. And then, the team self-study was carried out to the experimental group for 1 week and then, simulation-based education was conducted. The results of the study showed that there was a significant improvement in the self-directed learning ability (t=8.49, p=.005) and confidence in performance(t=13.88, p<.001).