From classroom to clinic: Strengthening nurse anesthestist students’ readiness through an anesthesia e-pocket book

Health student education consists of theoretical learning, laboratory practicum, and clinical practice. For anesthesia nursing students, clinical practice represents real professional responsibilities, requiring adequate preparation and supportive learning resources. This study aimed to determine the effect of implementing an anesthesia e-pocket book on improving students' readiness for clinical practice. A pre-experimental design with a One-Group Pretest-Posttest approach was employed, involving 30 students selected through simple random sampling. Data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. The results showed that the anesthesia e-pocket book effectively improved students' pre-clinical readiness, indicated by a p-value < 0.000, which was lower than a = 0.05. These findings demonstrate that the anesthesia e-pocket book significantly enhances anesthesia nursing students' readiness for clinical practice. The study contributes to health education by providing empirical evidence on the effectiveness of digital pocket-based learning tools and offering a practical model that can be integrated into anesthesia nursing curricula to support clinical preparedness.