EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION AS A TEACHING METHOD FOR STUDENT NURSES IN ANTIPARTAL CLINICAL PROCEDURES The shortage of professional nurses in the United States in the early 1990s is acute. Increasing numbers of college students are declaring nursing majors, yet the nursing shortage is expected to continue well into the next century. A major contributor to the nursing shortage and its expected continuation is the severe deficit of clinical sites for nursing education and training.
There are few signs of governmental willingness to commit the resources necessary to provide the facilities and staff required by the increasing demands placed on nursing education. Therefore, nursing educators must attempt to develop innovative teaching approaches that will lead to an increased output of professional nurses, while continuing to operate with a stable resources base, and without permitting nursing education standards to deteriorate. One such teaching innovation is computer assisted instruction.
The effectiveness of computer assisted instruction in nursing education was tested at the Ball State University S
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