2023 Volume 33 Issue 2-1 Pages 1-13
〔Aims〕This study sought to clarify how nursing students acquire fundamental skills through face-to-face and online learning paradigms.
〔Methods〕This study comprised a text mining analysis of the reflections of nursing students enrolled at a nursing university during the 2019 and 2020 academic years.
〔Results〕The word with the highest number of occurrences was “patient” in both the face-to-face and online exercises. The analysis extracted 10 student learnings from face-to-face exercises and 8 student learnings from online exercises.
〔Conclusions〕At the beginning of face-to-face exercises, students were mainly in the psychomotor area based on the behavior of their own technology that they were interested in. Therefore, instructors should increase students’ awareness of the importance of nursing skills early in their studies and support them as they learn. The focus of online exercises was cognitive domains, and the material was mainly adapted from textbooks. Nursing instructors generate critical connections between knowledge and skills without focusing too closely on nursing students’ mastery of technical behaviors.
