International Anatolia Academic Online Journal Health Sciences

Yazarlar: Handan ÖZDEMİR, Ayten ZAYBAK

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Hemşirelik öğrencisi,Öğrenme stilleri

Özet: ABSTRACT This study was performed to investigate the relationship between learning styles and psychomotor skills of nursing students. The study was conducted between November 2013 and May 2014 in a Nursing Faculty in Izmir. The sample of the study comprised 2nd grade students (n = 174) who took “fundamentals of nursing” course and agreed to participate in the study. In the study, all the participating students were first given theoretical knowledge about the intramuscular (IM) injection in the classroom, and then they were administered the “Felder-Soloman Index of Learning Styles” and “IM Injection Knowledge Form”. Later, in the skills lab, the participants were demonstrated how to administer IM injection. Fifteen days after the demonstration, the participants’ IM injection skills were assessed using the “IM Injection Practice Skills Checklist”. The majority of the participants in the study were determined to have active, visual, sensing and sequential learning styles. In the present study, IM injection knowledge mean scores of the participants with the sensing and sequential learning styles were higher than those of the participants with the intuitive and global learning styles. No significant differences were determined between the participants’ mean scores for psychomotor skills (IM injection) in terms of their learning styles. In the study, no relationship was determined between the learning styles and psychomotor skills (IM injection) of the participating nursing students. Keywords: Nursing student, learning styles, psychomotor skill.

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