This study was planned to be conducted in a randomized controlled experimental design to determine the effect of virtual reality-based learning tool on nursing students' affective awareness, empathy, self-confidence and anxiety levels in clinical decision making. The population of the study will consist of students taking the Health Assessment course at Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. The data of the study will be collected by using descriptive characteristics form, "Affective Awareness Scale for Teaching", "Affective and Cognitive Empathy Scale", "Clinical Decision Making Self-Confidence and Anxiety Scale in Nursing". Students will be divided into virtual reality group, simulated patient group and control (traditional education) group using their academic grade point average. The subject of Health Assessment Thorax and Lung assessment will be taught to the control group with traditional education, to the virtual reality group with a virtual reality-based thorax and lung physical examination learning tool, and to the simulated patient group by performing a physical examination of the thorax and lung. Before the application, at the end of the application and at the end of clinical practices, the Affective Awareness Scale for Teaching", 'Affective and Cognitive Empathy Scale', Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Self-Confidence and Anxiety Scale" will be collected. Frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, chi-square, one-way analysis of variance (OneWay ANOVA), Levene's test, "multiple comparison test" (Bonferroni, Tamhane's T2) and repeated measures analysis of variance will be used to evaluate the data. 0.05 will be used as the significance level and it will be stated that there is a significant difference in case of p\<0.05 and there is no significant difference in case of p\>0.05.
Age range
18 Years
Sex
ALL
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Affective Awareness Level
Timeframe: From the pre-test before the training applications to the post-test after the training applications, approximately one month.
Affective and Cognitive Empathy Level
Timeframe: From the pre-test before the training applications to the post-test after the training applications, approximately one month.
Clinical Decision Making Self-Confidence and Anxiety Level
Timeframe: As the score increases, the level of affective and cognitive empathy also increases. From the pre-test before the training applications to the post-test after the training applications, approximately one month.