Escape Rooms as a Clinical Evaluation Method for Nursing Students.

There are currently no studies available about the possible use of gamification in the evaluation of nursing students' clinical skills. The purpose of this study was to understand the gameful experience and satisfaction of nursing students in the evaluation of their clinical skills using an escape room. A quasiexperimental study was carried out. The participants were divided into an experimental group (escape room) and a control group. The experimental group had higher than average scores in all dimensions of the gameful experience scale, except in the dimension of negative effects. Escape rooms are a useful tool for the evaluation of nursing students compared with using the objective structured clinical evaluation. • Studies show that the design of nursing evaluations is important, as well as the environment and the form in which the evaluator interacts and communicates with the nursing students. • Implementing gamification into an educational setting has proved to have many positive results, including making the student an active part of their own learning. • Escape room is a team-based activity in which participants are closed in a room and given a scenario in which they must solve puzzles and use clues to complete the activity. • Escape rooms can help incorporate simulation into students' learning using the game setting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]