The Effect of Creative Drama on Postmortem Care in Nursing Students

The Effect of Creative Drama Method on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Skills Regarding Postmortem Care

The goal of this randomized controlled including pretest, posttest and persistence test study is to examine the effect of creative drama method on student nurses' knowledge and skill levels related to postmortem care, learning permanence and satisfaction with the training method.

The main question it aims to answer are:

•Is the postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method effective on the level of knowledge and skills, the permanence of knowledge and skills and satisfaction with the training method? Participants will participate in an educational activity related to postmortem care. Researchers will compare it with the classical education method to see if postmortem care training given to nursing students with the creative drama method is effective.

The research will be carried out in the form of determining the preliminary knowledge of nursing third year students about postmortem care, providing education with classical education and creative drama methods, evaluating the educational outcomes and permanence in education for knowledge and skills, and determining their satisfaction with the educational methods.

Hypotheses of the research are as follows. H1: There is a difference between the knowledge scores of the experimental and control groups on postmortem care. Is there a difference between the creative drama method and classical education method and the satisfaction of postmortem care students with the training method? H2: There is a difference between the skill scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care. H

: There is a difference between the information persistence scores of the experimental and control groups related to postmortem care.

H4: There is a difference between the skill persistence scores of the experimental and control groups for postmortem care.

H5: There is a difference between the satisfaction of the experimental and control groups with the training method

Inclusion Criteria:

• Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, 2022-2023 academic year fall semester to be studying in the third year.
• To have taken the "Principles of Nursing" course and the Loss-Death-Mourning process described in this context at the theoretical level.
• Agreeing to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have previously received skills training related to postmortem care.
• Have previous clinical experience with postmortem care.
• Have previously provided postmortem care.
• Not agreeing to participate in the research.