Educational outcomes of digital serious games in nursing education: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Background: Advancements in digital technologies and the coronavirus disease pandemic have rapidly shifted educational practices towards engaging digital methods, such as serious games, significantly influencing healthcare education. Digital serious games enhance nursing education by effectively overcoming limitations such as limited training time and inadequate resources, thereby improving knowledge and skills. Few high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses were focused exclusively on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of digital serious games to determine their effects in nursing education.

Effects of governmental support on clinical nurse educators in South Korea: A repeated cross-sectional study.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of the Clinical Nurse Educator Support Project and offer valuable insights for supporting nursing education.

Background: Allocating clinical nursing educators is crucial for supporting novice nurses' transition into the clinical setting and improving their performance.

Introduction: In 2019, the Ministry of Health and Welfare in South Korea implemented the Clinical Nurse Educator Support Project, which involves governmental financial support for the employment of clinical nurse educators.

Effectiveness of a critical reflection competency program for clinical nurse educators: a pilot study.

Background: Critical reflection is an effective learning strategy that enhances clinical nurses' reflective practice and professionalism. Therefore, training programs for nurse educators should be implemented so that critical reflection can be applied to nursing education. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a critical reflection competency program for clinical nurse educators on improving critical thinking disposition, nursing reflection competency, and teaching efficacy.

Development of Critical Reflection Competency Scale for Clinical Nurses.

Critical reflection develops nurses' critical thinking and clinical reasoning competency. It is necessary to develop a validated scale to measure critical reflection competency considering the clinical situation and nursing context. Therefore, this study analyzed the concept of critical reflection, developed a scale to measure critical reflection competency, and verified its validity and reliability.

Factors Affecting Secondary Traumatic Stress of Nurses Caring for COVID-19 Patients in South Korea.

The secondary traumatic stress (STS) of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients is expected to be high, and it can adversely affect patient care. The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of STS of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients, and we identified various factors that influence STS. This study followed a descriptive design.