Study of Nursing Students’ Experiences pre and post Clinical Practice at clinical skills training center in Duhok city

A novel approach to education called simulation-based training offers students excellent chances to acquire and safely apply what they learn about nursing care. The purpose of this study was to evaluate how simulation-based training affected nursing students' abilities as clinical practitioners and their sense of self- Efficaciousness. Subjects and Methods: This study (pre-posttest intervention) employed a quiz-experimental design and was conducted utilizing moderate- and high-fidelity simulators on 63 first-year nursing students for the academic year 2023–2024.At Duhok Polytechnic University and Duhok Technical Institute, this study was conducted. Data collection: demographic information, self-efficacy, and clinical proficiency tests. The software SPSS version 20 is used for analysis. Results: Following their involvement in the simulation program, participants who received the simulation-based training shown statistically significant improvements in their self-Efficaciousness and clinical proficiency levels. Conclusion: Self-Efficaciousness and clinical competency can be improved in nursing courses through simulation-based training. It is strongly advised that the nursing curriculum use multiple-patient simulations as a teaching-learning technique.