Lead Author: Sunyoung Son
Submitted by: Amy Lorion, NBOME

This article describes a study in South Korea in which 49 senior nursing students were trained on end-of-life hospice care using either a simulation-only program (control group) or a program that included lectures after the simulation (experimental group). The authors found that, while there were no significant differences between the groups in either their confidence levels or the positivity in their attitudes toward hospice care, only the students in the experimental group demonstrated increased hospice-related knowledge, this despite both groups having received self-directed learning materials before the simulation. According to the authors, this “suggests that self-directed learning of theoretical aspects and practical simulation training alone are insufficient to improve knowledge.” Accordingly, “the knowledge aspect of hospice care can be improved more efficiently by combining simulation training with lectures and debriefing than by simulation alone.”

Read the full article in the [BMC Nursing] [https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12912-025-02700-1].

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