Presented by:
Chad Hallyburton
Key Statement:
Nurse influenza vaccination acceptance impacts patient health outcomes and healthcare effectiveness. Come learn how classroom-based undergraduate research can boost nursing students’ vaccine knowledge and intentions.
Keywords:
Vaccine Hesitancy, Nursing, Undergraduate Research
Abstract:
Course-Based Undergraduate Research (CURES), traditional mentored undergraduate research, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) are often pursued as separate areas of focus, but when combined, can have a synergistic effect on student engagement and pedagogical advancement.
Additionally, this three-pronged approach can more efficiently utilize instructor/researcher time and resources. This poster describes how a CURES-based classroom project, supported by traditional undergraduate research students and evaluated via SoTL, impacted pre-Nursing student influenza vaccine knowledge, boosted their understanding of how healthcare worker vaccination reduces healthcare-associated infections, and influenced their attitudes towards employer-based vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Describe the logistical combination of Course-Based Undergraduate Research (CURES), traditional mentored undergraduate research, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to increase student engagement and facilitate pedagogical advancement.
2. Analyze changes in pre-Nursing student knowledge, beliefs, and intentions, after completing a class project focusing on healthcare worker vaccine decision-making.
3. Investigate opportunities to utilize CURES, traditional mentored undergraduate research, and SoTL to improve pedagogy in a range of disciplines.
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Rodriguez, D. (2023, October), Influenza Disease and Vaccination Knowledge, Beliefs, and Intentions Among Undergraduate Nursing Students [Poster presentation]. SoCon Undergraduate Research Forum, Spartenburg, South Carolina.