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Psychomotor skills laboratories as self‐directed learning: a study of nursing students' perceptions
Author(s) -
McAdams Constance,
Rankin E. Jean,
Love Barbara,
Patton Diane
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01643.x
Subject(s) - psychomotor learning , perception , medical education , psychology , nursing , medicine , cognition , neuroscience
Fifty‐nine baccalaureate nursing students were surveyed regarding their preferred method of learning psychomotor skills necessary for clinical practice. In addition, 12 faculty members were also asked to express their opinions of the best way for students to learn psychomotor skills. The use of a self‐directed clinical laboratory was supported by both students and faculty in this study. Hands on and visual pre‐clinical experiences with adequate equipment were the major factors influencing the students' requests for clinical laboratories. Faculty expressed the same concerns about equipment and human resources, but their support of the laboratory was tempered and based on the presence or absence of adequate human resources and equipment available to students in the clinical setting.