Implementation of Web-Based Distance Education in Nursing Education in Turkey: A Sample Lesson in Patient Education

Abstract

The research was carried out in 2005-2006 as a descriptive and methodological study. It aimed to obtain students' feedback and to serve as a source for future relevant studies. The setting of the study was Istanbul University Florence Nightingale Nursing College and at Istanbul University Bakirkoy Health College. The sample of the study included 167 students who voluntarily consented to participate in the study. The sample was taken from the population of all students continuing their education at the two study universities. Data were collected utilizing the "Information Form 1" and the "Information Form 2" The students' general mean and standard deviation values on Information Form 2 were (117.02 +/- 8.04), and when the arithmetic mean and standard deviation values relating to the sections were examined, the results were as follows: Views about the Design of the patient education course (65.19 +/- 3.33), Views about the patient education course (24.71 +/- 2.57), Views about web-based distance learning after education (27.19 +/- 3.86). These were considered to be satisfactory findings indicating that the students had positive views about the web-based patient education course in general. The opinion of the students about the "Patient Education" lesson was generally positive. There was a significant difference with respect to the scores on the questionnaire between the students with, and students without, the ability of learning by themselves, the scores being higher in the former (p<0.05).