Perception of nursing students about the implementation of GREENS© methodology in nursing studies.
BACKGROUND
The Gymkhana Room for Education and Evaluation in Nursing Studies (GREENS©) is a pedagogical model that can be used as a learning and assessment method in nursing training workshops. This model combines the advantages of gamification, the flipped classroom and the use of low-fidelity clinical simulation, also including self-reflection and peer evaluation of the situations experienced.


OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the students' perception of the implementation of GREENS© as a learning and assessment tool in an academic course at the University of Almeria.


DESIGN
A cross-sectional descriptive study.


SETTINGS
Academic year 2018/2019, at the University of Almeria (UAL), Spain.


PARTICIPANTS
77 students enrolled in their 2nd year of the Nursing Degree who attended the "Health Promotion and Safety" class.


METHODS
After completing the GREENS© activity, the perception and anxiety of students were analyzed through an online ad hoc questionnaire composed of 17 questions. Data were collected in January 2019.


RESULTS
All of the questions scored above 4 out of a maximum of 5 on a Likert scale. For all the questions, >50% of the students were in total agreement with the questions answered, showing a high acceptance of the GREENS© methodology implementation. The students reported that their anxiety decreased significantly, with a score of 4.7 points on average (95% CI: 4.16 to 5.33, p < 0.001), after knowing that the assessment would be through a gamification tool, not an oral one. More than 60% of the students answered "agree" or "strongly agree" with the idea that GREENS© is useful for improving motivation, teamwork, learning, fun and knowledge assessment.


CONCLUSIONS
The use of GREENS© has generated a high satisfaction and motivation of the students in their learning process, and as an assessment tool, it created a lower degree of anxiety as compared to an oral examination.
['Jiménez-Rodríguez|Diana|D|', 'Belmonte Garcia|Teresa|T|', 'Arizo Luque|Vanessa|V|']
D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate D006801:Humans D010465:Perception D013030:Spain D013338:Students, Nursing D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Nursing Education Gamification Problem-based learning Simulation training