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As shown in the Federal Plain Language Guidelines (The Plain Language Action and Information Network, 2011), professionals are required to possess the requisite communication skills to explain terms to the public in an
appropriate, simple, and easy-to-understand manner. Physicians and medical and pharmacy students have conducted most of the research on the recognition and understanding of technical terms, but only a few studies have revealed the degree of recognition and understanding of terminology among nursing students. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of nursing students recognition and understanding of nursing practice terms, alongside the factors related to their recognition and understanding, using nursing practice terms that nursing students' must understand as clues. Completion of the course “Clinical Practices in Basic Nursing I” was associated with the recognition of the term “warm compress” (p=0.023) and understanding of the term “provide internal medicine” (p=0.013). Upon completion, the course itself was associated with the recognition of 17 out of 20 terms, excluding “bed-making,” “transfers,” and “positioning,” and was correlated with the understanding of all 20 terms. The survey found that almost all of the terms studied were recognized and understood in conjunction with the curriculum. However, two educational challenges were identified: some nursing practice terms had low recognition levels, and some had retained recognition levels but were poorly understood.
