BACKGROUND: Although online and offline blended teaching has emerged as a new teaching method, little research has been conducted on teaching clinical nursing skills and even less on the online teaching of this aspect of nursing apprenticeships.
AIM: This study aimed to evaluate a blended online and offline teaching module for surgical nursing apprenticeship using the Learning Pass mobile application.
DESIGN: A clustered randomised control trial was conducted among 166 nursing students at a university.
METHODS: The intervention group received online and offline blended teaching methods using the Learning Pass mobile application (n = 83), while the control group used traditional face-to-face teaching methods (n = 83). Participants were assessed on self-directed learning ability before and after the experiment. Skill performance and learning attitude were measured post-experiment.
RESULTS: A significant increase in self-directed learning ability was observed in the intervention group compared with the control group (t = 2.379, p = 0.019). The skill scores also showed a significant increase in the intervention group compared with the control group (t = 3.623, p
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