Vanessa Van Bewer, Morgan Sawchyn
Enhancing nursing education for Indigenous students: Indigenous nursing students' insights and strategies
Nurse education today
higher education institutions adapting innovating like never provide highly individualized learning environments traditional nontraditional students seismic upheaval higher education landscape observed across world present study aimed evaluate effectiveness blended learning approach nursing students selfdirected learning readiness study quasiexperimental approach nonequivalent control group used posttest design comparison carried two separate semester cohort students representing control intervention groups 24 30 students respectively study included firstyear nursing students enrolled course called anatomy physiology course nursing education private university control group received teaching facetoface intervention group used information technology prescribed activities online ebook selfdirected learning readiness sdlr tool measures learners readiness selfdirected learning groups scale comprises three subscales selfmanagement desire learning selfcontrol independentsamples ttest conducted compare selfdirected learning readiness control intervention groups data analyzed using ibm spss statistics 25 software measure independent ttest selfdirected readiness scores significantly higher intervention group p 0019 intervention group showed higher mean value subscales selfmanagement selfcontrol demonstrated significant difference p values 0018 0028 respectively subscale desire learning insignificant p value 0166 study concluded overall results demonstrate incorporating blended learning using ebooks anatomy physiology courses nursing education contribute students readiness selfdirected learning specifically blended learning teaching learning strategy positive impact nursing students capacity selfmanagement selfcontrol