Students Clinical Skills for Anxiety Reduction and Learning

One of the main task for nursing educators is development of appropriate environment for crirtcal thinking in classroom and clinical setting. New teaching method is essential for this aim. In this study researchers have tried to introduce a new method for evaluating nursing students clinical skill using peers and assessing their views about this method in development of critical thinking. There action research method they were asked to for evaluating clinical skill acquired in fundamental training class by nursing students: form two groups and evaluate each other by a standard skill checklist during laction and give their feedback. Also, a questionnaire was prepared to assess the students view about this method. Later, the and these questionnaires were gathered and analysed. Based on this study 87% of students hadn’t any experience about peer evaluation. By assessing their view about using this method, high score was related to learning, anexiety reductine, motivation and easy usage. Low score was related to trusty of this method. The trainer can provide more active, consant and critical learning by peer evaluation in educating students and acquire more autonomy, self-confidence and better decisionmaking in problem solving.