The effectiveness of an Instagram-based educational game in a Bachelor of Nursing course: An experimental study.

Background: Gamification is a novel educational method that adopts elements of games to motivate students using participatory learning. The objective of this study was to measure the effect of participation in an Instagram-based educational game on learning outcomes.

Method: Experimental design with 291 university students in a first-year course of the Bachelor of Nursing during the 2020-21 academic year.

Gamification on Instagram: Nursing students' degree of satisfaction with and perception of learning in an educational game.

Background: Gamification has been shown to lead to greater motivation and participation among students. Currently, many teachers use social networks to share supplementary course materials and student work, but they have not incorporated gamified educational activities into social networking sites.

Objective: To determine nursing students' satisfaction with an Instagram-based educational game and their perceptions of its effects on their learning.

The usefulness and acceptance of the OSCE in nursing schools.

This qualitative study explores the usefulness and acceptance attributed by students and faculty members to an Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) administered to nursing undergraduates in Catalonia (Spain) for 10 years. Seventy undergraduate nursing students and twelve faculty members participated in the study. The data collection techniques included an open-ended questionnaire, a student focus group, and individualized faculty interviews.

[Testing objective structured clinical evaluation (OSCE) for nursing students experience developed during the years 1995-2009].

The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has been recognized as an effective evaluation tool in the health area and has been implemented by an important sector of educational institutions, the Faculty of Medicine and School of Nursing. The present article describes the OSCE organized by the Institute of Health Studies in collaboration with the University Schools of Catalan Nursing. Between the years of 2002 and 2009, OSCE annual exams took place with the participation of 1.

[Informal caretakers in Spain, their profile and care provided].

The authors carried out a systematic search in main data bases and a methodological content review by paired authors about selected publications. The authors reviewed and analyzed 332 articles about informal caretakers and they chose 182 which complied with their selection criteria. The profile for informal caretakers of persons aged over 65 in Spain is identified as well as the type of care he/she provides.