Concept Mapping Strategy: An Effective Tool for Improving Administration Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitude

Abstract

Background: Concept mapping, a learning strategy used to understand key concepts and relationships between concepts, has been suggested as a method to plan and evaluate nursing care.

The aim: of study was to assess the effect of concept mapping strategy on improving administration nursing students’ knowledge and attitude.

Materials and Methods:a true - experimental design was conducted in faculty of nursingZagazig University, three tools were used for data collection namely; pre/posttest knowledge questionnaire, rubric for assessing concept map, and attitude assessment tool

Results:Before implementing the training the highest percentages of nursing students had poor level of knowledge (92.5%), while all nursing students had good level of knowledge after implementing training. The highest percentage of nursing students had a positive attitude towards adopting concept mapping to learn nursing administration course (77.5%).