2022 Research Team.

Our research team focused on investigating the relationship between psychological safety and the clinical performance of nursing students. Guided by situated learning theory, we proposed that increased collaboration and interaction between learners and educators during pre-briefing sessions could enhance support for learning and confidence building. To explore this, we employed three pre-briefing techniques: Traditional, Concept Mapping, and Virtual Reality. Thirty-eight nursing students were randomly assigned to one of these groups, each receiving a 20-minute pre-briefing session. Our findings revealed a significant positive correlation between psychological safety and clinical judgment, with higher feelings of psychological safety linked to better clinical reasoning and judgment. Notably, Concept Mapping and Virtual Reality techniques were more effective than Traditional methods in enhancing psychological safety and clinical judgment, with Virtual Reality consistently scoring highest. Our research highlighted the potential of innovative pre-briefing techniques, particularly Virtual Reality, to improve the psychological safety and clinical judgment of nursing students as they prepared for real-world clinical settings.