Evaluation of the effects of virtual game simulations in the teaching of women's HEALTH and diseases nursing undergraduate level skills

During the coronovirus pandemic period, distance education has been switched to, and clinical environments have been avoided and difficulties have arisen in acquiring nursing skills to students. This study was carried out with the aim of teaching the nursing skills related to prenatal, innatal and postnatal periods of nursing department 3rd year students with routine distance education, as well as supporting them with virtual game simulations, evaluating the satisfaction of students towards distance education and their self-confidence in learning. It is an experimental study with a group pretest-posttest design. The sample of the study consisted of 60 students who were taking the Nursing Department 3rd Class Women's Health and Diseases Nursing course at a private foundation university between April 2021 and June 2021 and met the criteria for inclusion in the research. At the end of the study; A statistically significant difference was found between the pre- and post-test E-Lessons Satisfaction Scale total score medians (p<0.001), and a statistically significant difference was found between the pre- and post-test medians of the skill assessment rubric prenatal, innatal and postnatal periods (p<0.001). In addition, it was determined that there was a moderately significant positive correlation between the total score of the student satisfaction and self-confidence in learning scale and the total score of the satisfaction scale for the posttest E-courses (rs=0.591; p=0.000).