Peer Feedback Among Nursing Students: Does it Enhance Learning?

By:

Sydney Everett, MSN, RN 
Rachel Joseph, PhD, MA, CCRN 
Tracey Turner, EdD, MSN, RNC-OB 
Dottie Murphy, DNP, FNP-BC, CNE 

Teaching is an important aspect of a nurse’s role; they teach patients, their families, and novice nurses or newly hired nurses (Irvine et al., 2017). Students must learn the process of teaching in nursing school and develop teaching as they move through different clinical experiences. The process of teaching helps build relationships and improve outcomes (Wu et al., 2018) Giving peer feedback is one way the students can practice and develop teaching skills, benefitting them later in their careers with effective patient teaching. Additionally, giving feedback to another student and receiving feedback from another student will help the receiver and giver of feedback to retain the information (Stenberg et al., 2021). Peer feedback can be generally defined as the process among people of the same professional level critiquing each other’s work and giving feedback intentionally to enhance learning and confidence in the performance of those skills. The purpose of this manuscript is to examine the literature on peer feedback and identify the benefits of peer feedback on student learning and information retention.

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References

Everett, Sydney; Joseph, Rachel; Turner, Tracey; and Murphy, Dorothy (2023) "Peer Feedback Among Nursing Students: Does it Enhance Learning?," Wisdom & Compassion: The LUSON Journal: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/wctlj/vol1/iss1/4