Abstract:
BACKGROUND:
Worldwide nursing students need to learn theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The quality of nursing education depends on degree to which nursing students are able to integrate the learned theory into practice in clinical setting. Poor satisfaction and low selfconfidence among nursing students has been a major challenge worldwide used to occur in clinical setting where patients served as aids for health care professional trainees. Simulation Based Learning teaching (SBL) methodology compliance appears to be the major contributing factor to nursing student‟s satisfaction and self-confidence during their professional training as well as after their graduation from university Nursing students are satisfied and self-confident with clinical simulation education program when the clinical simulation learning environment becomes conducive to maximize the knowledge, skills as well as professional attitude required for their intended career. However, little is known about the perceived levels of satisfaction and self-confidence regarding to simulation-based learning among nursing students in Rwanda.
AIM: The aim of this study was to assess theperceived levelsof satisfaction and selfconfidence regarding to simulation-based learning among University of Rwanda nursing students.
METHODOLOGY:
The study utilized aquantitative approach and non-experimental descriptive crosssectional design. The study population was two hundred thirty-eight (238) undergraduate nursing students. A convenience sampling technique was used to select 222 students who were included in the study sample. A self-administered questionnaire adapted from NLN (National League for Nurses with an open access for noncommercial research was used in data collection. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21. Both descriptive and inferential statistics was used.
FINDINGS:
The findings of this study indicated that most of participants were aged between 18-23 years 169(76.1%), Male represented (61.3%), satisfaction and self-confidence on SBL vary from the mean 3, 37 to 4.17/5 and from 3.75 to 4.26/5 on Likert Scale. Based on categories, this study showed 50% of high satisfaction 38% of moderate satisfaction and 12% of poor satisfaction. Levels of self-confidence showed that 51% were moderately confident, 44% highly confident and 5% were in low confidence level with SBL.
Pearson chi-square results showed astatistically significant association between satisfaction levels and self-confidence levels (P=0.000). Regarding the association between demographic data satisfaction levels and self-confidence levels results showed that there is no statistical significance (p- value > 0.02).
CONCLUSION:
The main findings of this study indicated moderate and high nursing students „satisfaction and self-confidence regarding SBL.However, some participants demonstrated poor satisfaction and low self-confidence scores which showed that the SBL still has an area gap that needs improvement as evidenced by a none negligible number of students with poorsatisfaction and low self-confidence in the presented results of this study.
