Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Simulation Technology in Nursing Education

This paper investigates the usefulness of simulation technology in nursing education from the students' point of view. A quantitative method for data collection has been used. Participants were recruited from three nursing grads, covering six semesters. Twenty percent of the whole participants in each course and semester were randomly selected to be the sample of the study. The initial sample consisted of 150 students. Grade one students (N=141) were excluded as they do not use simulation in their curriculum. The study was conducted in the College of Nursing/the University of Mosul during the period from January 2019 to March 2019. KidSim ATTITUDES questionnaire was conducted as a tool to assess students' attitudes towards using simulation technology in Nursing Education. Data management and analysis were performed by using the SPSS 25. Statistical significance was analyzed using analysis of variance and t-tests as appropriate. Significance levels were set at the 1% level using the student t-test. The finding suggests that most of the student show positive attitudes towards using simulation technology in Nursing education (42%48.9%) expressed about their (agreed-strongly agreed regarding Relevance of Simulation in nursing. In general, this study has found that Mosul Nursing students has positive attitudes towards using simulation in their teaching and training.