Utilizing an SBAR Workshop With Baccalaureate Nursing Students to Improve Communication Skills. Issue 2 (March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stevens, Natalie; McNiesh, Susan; Goyal, Deepika
• Is Part Of: Nursing education perspectives. Volume 41:Issue 2(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-03
• Subjects: Communication -- SBAR -- Simulation -- Student Anxiety -- Student Confidence -- Undergraduate Nursing Students; Nursing -- United States -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Periodicals; Education, Nursing; Nursing; Nursing; United States; Periodicals; Periodicals; 610.73071073
• DOI: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000518
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-5026

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) technique to reduce anxiety and increase self-confidence levels regarding health care communication among undergraduate nursing students. Baccalaureate nursing students ( n = 35) completed anxiety and self-confidence questionnaires before and after an SBAR communication workshop and subsequent simulation. A statistically significant increase in postintervention self-confidence scores was noted with no significant difference in anxiety levels. The findings support the use of SBAR as an organizing tool to promote nursing students' self-confidence during communication; however, further efforts are needed to qualitatively examine how this tool promotes these changes.